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

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

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 ...

AS we approach the end of the year, one dominated by allegations of massive corruption in government, we need to consider our ...

Ninth Amendment—Unenumerated Rights Crushed by Government Power. The Ninth Amendment affirms that the people retain rights ...

When James Madison and his fellow statesmen drafted the Constitution, they created our system of government, with its checks, balances and sometimes awkward compromises. The laws of the United States ...

As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, ...

The way United States Constitution of 1789 speaks about money has long puzzled observers. Why does it speak so little about money, people ask, and when it does treat the subject, why the weird ...

Our pledge is to the Constitution — its principles and processes in everyday life. That fidelity keeps America free, ...

Dr. Doerfler and Dr. Moyn teach law at Harvard and Yale. When liberals lose in the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century — they usually say that the justices got the ...