Charles Lincoln is a Ph.D. candidate in law at the University of Groningen. He holds an LL.M. in taxation from Boston University, an advanced LL.M. in international taxation from the University of Amsterdam, a J.D. from Texas A&M University School of Law, and a bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard University. He is the author of Gods, Judges, and Presidents: Trifunctional Archetypes in American Law and Government (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) and The Dialectical Path of Law (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). His research includes constitutional structure, legal history, and comparative law.
On May 15, 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared that authority under the British Crown should be suppressed and that the powers of government should instead be exercised under the authority of the people. The resolution came seven weeks before the Declaration of Independence. It transformed an argument about imperial authority into a problem of […]