Hopeful is right. I’m not an optimist, but I’m hopeful that the Constitution can still work for us because I think the Constitution was intended to address exactly the kinds of problems we face now.

When the Colorado Supreme Court decided that Donald Trump should be removed from the Colorado ballot, the opposition from politicos and other commentators—even those who did not favor Trump—was ...

The Constitution was born Sept. 17, 1787, when signed by delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Constitution Day is our annual national observance each Sept. 17 - Saturday, this year - ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

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Because we Americans have forgotten how to disagree with one another, forgotten how to collaborate and compromise, Yuval Levin contends, in clear and persuasive prose, that the United States ...

I recently made a pilgrimage to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see the United States Constitution — the one that George Washington and 38 other Founders signed with a goose quill 238 ...

In the spring of 1814, 25 years after the ratification of America’s Constitution, a group of 112 Norwegian men—civil servants, lawyers, military officials, business leaders, theologians, and even a ...

Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers approved a bill to designate the month of September as “American Founders and Constitution Month” to encourage residents to learn more about America’s founding ...

“Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism ...