For over 230 years, the Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States. Before the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation was the ruling document. But it had its problems, ...

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

The seminal moment at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 bridged the divide between the big and small states by establishing the bicameral legislature structure still in place today. The so-called ...

On September 17 every year, the United States commemorates Constitution day. The day celebrates the signing of the foundational document of American history that established the system of government ...

Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional ...

A new “interactive” version of the U.S. Constitution will be made available to teachers and students, featured in the curricular materials for Advanced Placement History and Government and classes.

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the high degree of unanimity at the Supreme Court this Term. But while today’s decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Canning may have been nine-zero ...

Has Akhil Reed Amar grown tired of constitutional law? It certainly seems so. The Yale professor burst on the scene in 1998 with The Bill of Rights, a brilliant book that managed a most extraordinary ...

Alexander Hamilton through selective quotation is cast as an elitist. James Madison in a Federalist Paper argues for a federal government because it is better able than a state government to keep down ...

Textbooks and history books routinely dismiss the Constitution as racist and pro-slavery. The New York Times, among others, continues to casually assert that the Constitution affirmed ...

Nevada City Masons are planning for the 57th Annual Constitution Day Ceremonies, to be held on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 of September. Over several generations, our local parade has become one of the ...