Is the United States governed by laws or norms?

E.J. Dionne is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. He is a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s This Week, and MSNBC.

Peter Wehner is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the director of EPPC’s Faith Angle Forum. He writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national security issues. In 2001, he was named deputy director of speechwriting for President George W. Bush and later served as director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives.

Brian Balogh is the Dorothy Danforth Compton professor at the Miller Center and professor of history in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He shares his enthusiasm for American history as co-host of BackStory with the American History Guys, a nationally syndicated radio show carried by more than 200 public broadcasting stations across the country.