This year’s Constitution Day at Stanford Law School went straight to the heart of modern constitutional debate: should judges interpret the U.S. Constitution through an originalist lens or a ...

This book review appeared in the Winter 2014/15 issue of The Independent Review. Even before the Constitution was ratified, essayists such as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, and George ...

It’s by now a wearily familiar ritual: The case against a foundational right or freedom—ballot access, uncorrupted elections, broadly affordable health care, reproductive rights—gains a hearing before ...

Article I, Section 1 provides: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” The ...

When the founding fathers signed the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, they laid the foundations for a national government that was strong, but not omnipotent. The federal government was divided ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanne Allen is founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform. Three of four college professors my freshman year were not ...

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Debates on the extent of government authority and the power of the United States Constitution have become commonplace in recent months. The term “constitutional crisis” is used to describe a situation ...