Congress? Never Heard of It

Oct 06, 2025

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Tyrants make laws. That’s why the Framers built a Constitution to stop them. Article I strikes like a hammer: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” All.

James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 47 in 1788, warned that the “accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same …

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Alexis Coe

Presidential historian, American History Columnist @NYT, senior fellow at New America, and New York Times Bestselling author of (almost!) three books. Lives in a one stoplight village in the Hudson Valley, often in DC and NYC.