Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...

As were his most distinguished successors. Thomas Jefferson changed the presidency to be openly (and effectively) partisan and agreed to the Louisiana Purchase even though he believed it was ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November ... especially in its provisions for a new chief executive. The American president, grumbled Jefferson, “seems a bad edition of a Polish ...

For example, the Department of State has been around since 1790, when Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State, but the Department of Veterans Affairs was founded in 1989. President Richard M.

The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...

The first inauguration in Washington, D.C. John Adams was also sworn in as president in Philadelphia. It wasn't until Thomas Jefferson's inauguration that the swearing in ceremony was moved to ...