Understand that if Trump succeeds the result will not be the harmless resurrection of a quaint jurisprudential artifact.

On his final voyage across the Atlantic in 1641, his ship sprung a leak, so he put in to Cadiz for repairs. While docked there, a fire broke out on a neighbouring vessel. As it happened ...

one of its first acts in 1641 was to abolish the Court of Star Chamber and other prerogative courts controlled directly by the crown. Meanwhile, over in British North America, the colonists ...