The Harvard Law Record
We live in a post-constitutional universe.
We have been reversing course since the American Revolution when George Washington turned aside a crown in favor of a Republic and Thomas Paine preached in
Common Sense: “For so in absolute governments the King is the law, so in free countries the law ought to be king.”
The President of the United States is now crowned with vastly more unchecked power than the tyranny King George III exercised over our forefathers which provoked the American Revolution.
Our urgent task as citizens is to restore the Constitution by deliberative engagement against those who have mauled it by creating an American Empire driven by an extra-constitutional, lawless, imperial presidency.