Loyalist № 21. The American Revolution rejected experience in favour of abstract reason. In hastily casting off the Empire, the Founders embraced the blank slate of political rationalism. Their act of collective forgetting has led to an imperial Presidency with a tendency to operate outside strict constitutional limits. Can a Republic ever match the deep memory of the British monarchy?
Loyalist № 13. Hamilton called the judiciary the “least dangerous” branch. Yet history played out very differently. From Marbury to Dobbs, the U.S. Supreme Court has shaped the political order as deeply as any elected branch. Its real power lay not only in constitutional design, but in popular legitimacy – something the Westminster experience shows cannot be engineered, only inherited.