Archive - De Civitate

Replacing the Seventeenth Amendment

Some Constitutional Amendments #6, Part II: Repeal was the Easy Part

Jul 8

June 2025

If They'd Made Me Pope: Amending the Unwritten Constitution

Part III: "The vast riches of the Church’s bureaucratic tradition are virtually unplumbed in these modern times."

Jun 26

A Senate, If You Can Keep It

Some Constitutional Amendments #6, Part I: The Senate is dead. We, the People, were found over the body with the murder weapon: democracy.

Jun 19 •

James J. Heaney

Roundup: If They'd Made Me Pope

Everything I've written about Pope Celestine VI, long may he reign

Jun 18 •

James J. Heaney

Roundup: Some Constitutional Amendments

Everything I've written in the Some Constitutional Amendments series

Jun 18 •

James J. Heaney

If They'd Made Me Pope: Government 101

Part II: Dealing with invasions, Antipope Joan, and a decapitation strike.

Jun 10

If They'd Made Me Pope: Preliminaries

Part I: "The End of the Celebrity Papacy"

Jun 3

May 2025

April 2025

The Conclave is In The World and Of It

Against Ultramontane Paracletism (feat. both Conclave (2024) and Conclave (2025))

Apr 26 •

James J. Heaney

Take-ing on the New Administration

A Trump hot takes megapost. (Once. As a treat.)

Apr 14 •

James J. Heaney

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