It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War before the English Constitution secured for Parliament the appropriations power – the power of the purse w ...

"Among their chief purposes, the American colonists fought a revolution, and the Framers drafted the Constitution, to protect what Madison called the 'sacred' principle of congressional power over the ...

Contemporaries couldn’t quite understand how it was that the English could go to war with ... with each revolution. Who were the Independents and the sectaries? Why was Charles I useless? What was so ...

This isn’t actually a solution, of course, but it might avoid a horrid civil war until the Left finally destroys the country through decadence and bankruptcy. How much can Mr. Trump change the ...

France’s declaration of war on Austria on 20 April 1792 and its ... and the Church was to give up all claims to property lost during the Revolution. The Concordat’s most dramatic step, however, was to ...

The Prime Minister will today pledge to transform Whitehall with a “digital revolution” giving taxpayers “£45bn worth of savings and productivity benefits” in public services. Civil ...

Sri Lanka’s government has scored a string of wins in its long-standing civil war with Tamil militants. But it faces the challenge of integrating its Tamil minority. Sri Lanka has been mired in ...

These are the key developments on day 1,115 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Finnish court sentences Russian paramilitary to life imprisonment for war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

The US President was issued an unequivocal message from the straight-talking cradle of the Industrial Revolution, warning that sparking a trade war would be bad for business. Washington has vowed ...

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Introduction: percussion – a chord. And the powerful voice of Vangelis Perpiniadis (with Ria Norma providing backing vocals) begins the monumental hymn «to Bukovi’s magnificent team» which generations ...

The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of Black resilience. By Alissa Wilkinson In this coming-of-age drama from ...