This is part of a mixed series between my Substack and this website, complete with a jumbled posting order. Go here for the first in the series (I, II). The next article in Islander #5 is an intriguing argument by
Men always want more power. Separation of powers, as Montesquieu laid it out, is a means of playing this cupidity against itself. The American implementation is not so focused on the balancing of classes as Montesquieu was (albeit some element
Hollywood stories have been getting a bad reputation- ‘Hollywood’ being a catch-all for the big money film industry, here. The Rings of Power show, for instance, possibly had greater cultural impact in how its critics pulled it apart than in
The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause must compete with another famous definition of the American government’s proper relationship with the church: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, wherein he wrote of a “wall of separation between church and state” (Dreisbach).
The name ‘Marco Rubio’ has been bruited about as a presidential possibility for years now, longer than I’ve been cognizant of politics in a meaningful sense (given I only started paying attention late 2015). Of late, however, he’s been the