Curbing a Constitutional Crisis

Curbing a Constitutional Crisis

These are the times that try conservatives’ souls.

A liberal president wants funding for defense slashed. Congress aims to increase taxes and regulate just about everything. Activist judges create new “rights” while ignoring long-standing precedent.

So why remain upbeat? Because our country still has the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They’re the touchstones of our liberty -- and the conservative trump cards in the battle of ideas.

“We don’t need to remake America, or discover new and untested principles,” writes scholar Matthew Spalding in his latest...