The Founding Fathers lived in a world of kings and emperors. There was no democracy in their time, and nothing even close since ancient Greece. Men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, well ...

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 ...

The first time I grasped what a constitution does was in a crowded lecture hall at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law — the neoclassical building in my home city where generations have ...

The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met. Former senator (D-WI) Russ Feingold testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations ...

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 ...

The rights of the individual and the separation of powers are core constitutional principles. Both are being challenged.

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The community is invited to the exclusive Wilmington premiere of the historical documentary ‘The American Constitution.’ Officials with New Hanover County say the ...

For quite some time, the leftist political establishment has been accusing President Trump of abandoning the US Constitution. Now they have me wondering why that’s supposed to be a criticism. A ...

“The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. Jill Lepore is a historian at Harvard ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...