Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...
Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It’s in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare hands. There are ...
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, ...
A rare copy of the US Constitution that was found inside a filing cabinet sold for $9 million at auction this week. It took just seven minutes for the nearly 237-year-old document to clinch its hammer ...
In his final speech as president, Barack Obama, speaking to a crowd in Chicago, said: "Our Constitution is a remarkable, beautiful gift; but it's really just a piece of parchment. It has no power on ...
US President Joe Biden opined Friday without legal effect that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which ensures equal rights on the basis of sex, has been added to the Constitution as the 28th ...
A portion of Article 1, Section 8, as well as all of Article 1, Sections 9 and 10, were missing from the Constitution Annotated page on the Library of Congress' website the morning of Aug. 6. When the ...
US president has toyed with idea of seeking 4 more years in office, but lawyer predicts he won't, after GOP megadonor Miriam ...
A federal appeals court judge who was included on U.S. President Donald Trump's short list of potential Supreme Court ...
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...