Americans typically consider questions about the meaning of the Constitution through the prism of their political views and values. As a...

How many more Americans would have to die before the United States made the inevitable decision to withdraw from war in Afghanistan,...

Some readers may remember that their introduction to this ancient phrase came when they picked up a copy of Allen Drury’s 1959...

Some readers may remember that their introduction to this ancient phrase came when they picked up a copy of Allen Drury’s 1959...

Advocates of congressional term limits have strong arguments, as we observed last week of the ongoing effort to impose a ceiling on the...

The debate surrounding proposals for term limits on members of Congress would benefit from a reminder of the reasoning behind the 22nd...

Students of the Constitution often ask for an explanation of the Constitutional Convention’s rationale for distinguishing the length of...

On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the proposed Constitution. This was an act for the ages because it not...

Does Congress, under the Time, Place and Manner Clause of the Constitution, possess authority to “alter” or otherwise override state laws...

Likely the most mysterious provision of the Bill of Rights, the question of the meaning of the Ninth Amendment has generated numerous...

Throughout our nation’s history, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution has been misconstrued for the purpose of advancing state...

No doctrine has posed a greater threat to the U.S. Constitution than the flawed assertion of state sovereignty. It represented the...

“Federalism,” which refers to the allocation of powers between the federal and state governments, has been a source of contention since...

When 17-year old Darnella Frazier used her cell phone on May 25, 2020, to record the murder of George Floyd, a horrifying episode which,...

President Biden recently signed an executive order creating a bi-partisan commission that will study U.S. Supreme Court reform and, among...

The concept of the “Personal Constitution,” which we introduced in this column last week, is personified in the First Amendment freedoms,...

Together, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution form what Gunnar Myrdal called, the “American Creed.” The...

The introduction of H.R. 51, a bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state—the “Washington, Douglas Commonwealth”--would grant its...

As we have seen in our recent discussion of tests employed by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the parameters of speech afforded...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s invention in 1919, in Schenck v. United States, of the Clear and Present Danger Test, provided little...