07/11/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked laid out the philosophical architecture of American governance. The Founders, drawing on centuries of political thought from Aristotle to Montesquieu, constructed a system designed to do one thing above all else: prevent the concentration of power. They divided authority among three branches, gave each the means to resist the others, and … Continue reading Trump’s War on the Separation of Powers