The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

As Donald Trump shamelessly stretches the boundaries of the law to expand his power and influence, America’s federal judges ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

Voters gave Mr. Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the ...

Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...

I’m gravely concerned about the Congress, which remains asleep at the wheel, and an overeager executive trying to exercise powers it doesn’t have.

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common ...

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

President Donald Trump says that abortion policy should be left to the states, which, of course, means that if you’re in the wrong ZIP code, you’re out of luck.

It’s not clear if Canada wants to become a U.S. state, though technically it would be possible without its buy-in ...