Connor Ewing: The American Constitution is no longer the model for aspiring democracies. What are we to make of this?

Connor Ewing: Conservatism begins with a preference for preservation; a willingness to defend the fence posts that uphold the political order.

Yuval Levin’s constitutional conservatism leaves out one crucial thing: a respect for constitutional procedure.

The Civil War did not settle the relationship between the federal and state governments.

In contemporary constitutional law, it seems as if any inquiry about where the Constitution falls on a particular point of governmental structure or individual liberty must begin with the meta-question of interpretive method. Two different Supreme Court justices can read the same clause of the Constitution and, using different interpretive approaches, determine that it means [...]