While many people have declared the US Constitution to be “crystal clear” on issues of governance, the truth is that much of ...

These amendments have deep-rooted premises and values that they protect. The premise of the First Amendment, the premise 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 story of the 22nd Amendment, which became part of the Constitution 74 years ago after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was ...

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 ...

suggesting in an interview with “Meet the Press” that there were “methods” to circumvent the two-term limit laid out in the Constitution. It was the first time that Mr. Trump had indicated ...

Here is the abstract of Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause. This Article is the sixth installment of a planned ten-part series that provides the first ...

In 1819, Jefferson spoke out against judicial activism, saying: “The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” ...

Leaders from the new states gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to amend the articles, but instead threw them out and drafted a new plan, the U.S. Constitution, of which the first three words “We ...