In his speech “Why the impeachment clause is broken” at the University of Connecticut on Tuesday night, Sanford Levinson from the University of Texas Law School touched on issues he has with the ...

Sanford Levinson’s essay on the dysfunctions of the American Constitution is striking, mostly because of what he left unsaid (“It Is Time to Repair the Constitution’s Flaws,” The Chronicle Review, ...

The issue du jour is deportations, but the question has been a constant of Donald Trump’s presidencies: Is he acting within the Constitution? In his first term, it came up repeatedly: When he tried to ...

The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of Rights since those amendments were first added to the Constitution in 1791. Yet ...

Sanford Levinson holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is also a Professor in the Department of Government at the ...

In contemporary academic and legal discourse, the term""diversity"" has become such a floating signifier that the word can be taken to mean virtually anything. Levinson is well aware that the term's ...

The Constitution should represent democratically endorsed political ideas and beliefs, and if we enforce inherited rules on which the polity no longer agrees, the Constitution can become a cage that ...

President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise Monday to move to remove the guarantee of citizenship for some children born on U.S. soil. As part of a flurry of first-day actions, Trump ...

It’s true that I didn’t bring Sanford Levinson’s books and articles on modern constitutional reform into my criticism of the view of founding history presented at the Constitution Center. It’s true ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sanford V. Levinson is a Professor for School of Law in the University of Texas at Austin with 13 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1987 Interview.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The issue du jour is deportations, but the question has been a constant of Donald ...

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