As we celebrate 248 years of being a democracy, has the US Supreme Court become the most powerful branch of government?

Alexander Hamilton called it the least dangerous branch, but by embracing this dramatic

vision of judicial supremacy, this court has dramatically expanded its own power.

How might the founding fathers have interpreted the court's presidential

immunity ruling.

And what can we learn by looking back at their approaches?

In their view, personal self-government

was necessary for political self-government,

unless individual citizens focus on mastering their unreasonable passions like

anger and jealousy and fear, then we're going to not be able to keep the American experiment.

I'm Naila Boodoo and from Axios this. be able to keep the American experiment.

I'm Nailaboodoo and from Axios, this is one big thing.

Happy 4th of July. Our holiday this year comes just days after the Supreme Court wrapped up its session with a major and divisive ruling on presidential power.

In a 6-3 decision along party lines, the visevisevise ruling on presidential power.

In a six to three decision along party lines,

the justices said presidents have broad immunity

from prosecution over so-called official acts

that likely protects former President Trump for some of his actions around January 6th.

So for this special holiday episode, we had a conversation with Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and host of We the People,

a weekly podcast of constitutional debate.

His latest book delves deep into the thinking of the founding fathers, and we asked him for his take on the presidential

immunity ruling and the Scottish term behind us, as well as his own one big thing, how the

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