This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...

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

The entire U.S. Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the National Archives’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation. The Constitution and the original Bill of ...

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Harvard history professor Jill Lepore about the state of the U.S. Constitution, 236 years after its ratification. This week marks 236 years since the United States ...

When James Madison and his fellow statesmen drafted the Constitution, they created our system of government, with its checks, balances and sometimes awkward compromises. The laws of the United States ...

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 ...

As a candidate for president, Donald Trump didn't understand the Constitution—and didn't want to learn about it, a key campaign aide said. The book offers a bird's-eye view of Oval Office dysfunction ...

One of my favourite habits as a diligent newspaper reader has been to browse the end-of-year reading lists published by leading dailies. These lists typically r ...

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 ...