This work presents a speculative legislative text styled as a modern civic declaration, proposing a comprehensive framework for restoring constitutional war powers, reforming national emergency authorities, and reasserting the principle of popular sovereignty in the governance of the United States. Structured as a formal act of Congress, the document outlines mechanisms for limiting the duration of military authorizations and national emergencies, requiring affirmative c...

Congress finds that the continued existence of permanent war authorizations and perpetual emergency authorities is incompatible with the principles of a government of the people. The accumulation of open-ended statutory authorizations, routine emergency renewals, and implied or derivative powers has resulted in a substantial transfer of effective lawmaking authority from the Legislative Branch to the Executive Branch, contrary to the structure and intent of the Constitut...

The New American Deal is a bold constitutional and political reform manifesto designed for an America struggling with polarization, executive overreach, declining civic education, and global instability. Blending historical analysis with forward-looking policy design, the book lays out a comprehensive agenda for modernizing American institutions while preserving the spirit of the Founders. Through essays that examine elections, courts, the presidency, national security,...

(Selected from the spirit and language of Part III, “The Expanded New American Deal,” capturing the voice and thesis while remaining self-contained.) “A republic cannot be preserved by sentiment alone. It must continually rebuild the institutions that guard liberty from the appetites of power, from the factions of the moment, and from the emergencies that never cease. The New American Deal begins with a simple premise: that the United States must decide whether it ...