The FTC was created under a Wilson-era statute that restricted presidents to firing its commissioners for cause, precisely for the purpose of insulating them from political pressure — code for making ...

The Navy uniform to be used for the 126th Army-Navy Game will honor the six original warships, notably the USS Constitution.

Guam joined several states in filing an amicus brief last week that says the Supreme Court of the United States should grant ...

The theory of originalism, with reference to the Founding Fathers of the Constitution of 1787, remains the last frontier of Trumpism ...

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

Today, the Court is spotty in its application of this newfangled theory. Trump v. United States, which granted presidents ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

The Brennan Center for Justice has released a manual to help lawyers counter misleading historical arguments in legal ...

Courts of the era were explicit about what that meant. A trial with fewer than 12 jurors was, in the words of South Carolina Chief Justice John Belton O’Neall, “not a trial by jury, in any sense in ...

The United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary, or Semiquincentennial, in 2026 with a new set of circulating coins, created and released by the U.S. Mint, that celebrate the nation’s founding.

The founders of California did a deliberate act on Oct. 13, 1849. This is when they signed the Constitution of the State of California. Ho-hum, right? Not really.

AV Ristorante is a recurring series by Brian Fitzpatrick. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect ...