Our pledge is to the Constitution — its principles and processes in everyday life. That fidelity keeps America free, ...

Ninth Amendment—Unenumerated Rights Crushed by Government Power. The Ninth Amendment affirms that the people retain rights ...

THE debate over an anti-political dynasty law often proceeds as if the problem were merely political will. If only Congress ...

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

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is ...

As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, ...

The way United States Constitution of 1789 speaks about money has long puzzled observers. Why does it speak so little about money, people ask, and when it does treat the subject, why the weird ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In general, Americans don't trust their government institutions as much as they used to - ...

Those who want to see what a racist and pro-slavery Constitution would look like should turn to the Confederate Constitution of 1861. Though it largely mimics the Constitution, it is replete with ...

The U.S. Constitution is a big deal. It's the supreme law of the land, shaping how the government works and protecting your rights. But how much do you really know about it? Whether you slept through ...

Dr. Doerfler and Dr. Moyn teach law at Harvard and Yale. When liberals lose in the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century — they usually say that the justices got the ...