The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

the Constitution? Excepting Adams who served a single term, these presidents each served a year longer than did all nine first-government presidents together. If these four had served as the first ...

The SAVE Act presents a constitutional dilemma. By requiring individuals to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections, the SAVE Act is implicitly saying that someone ...

officially removed a residency requirement for registering to vote enshrined in the state’s original 1889 Constitution. The rulemaking occurred after both Hobbs and state Attorney General Bob ...

The original Constitution was written on four large sheets, using about 4500 words, including the 27 amendments since 1776, it now runs 7500 words. Printed on pocket-sized paper, it is just a 36 ...