When thinking of the people who crafted the U.S. Constitution, the name Eliza Harriot doesn’t usually come to mind. Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, sheds ...
Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the Constitution approved in 1787 at a convention in Philadelphia and ratified ...
The chaos under the Articles of Confederation, Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention revealing fierce debates over slavery and the three-fifths compromise, critics warning against the ...
Philadelphia and the surrounding area has numerous ties to Native American Heritage and is home to the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians. The Lenni-Lenape resided in Philadelphia when the city was ...
POCATELLO — Idaho State University’s Oboler Library is hosting a touring exhibit of the Idaho Constitution through late October. “Creating and Conserving the Constitution” is a touring exhibit curated ...
Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Supreme Court risks creating a “Constitution that no one wants” if it follows its current way of interpreting law. In an interview with Politico ...
Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America. In considering the Constitution, it is essential to remember that there were two factions ...
The following remarks, lightly adapted, were delivered by the author in Dallas on February 14, as part of National Review Institute’s Foundations of Freedom Seminars series on the Importance of ...
Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on his book "Reading the Constitution." Interpreting the Constitution for modern America is of course the divisive legal dilemma of the times, and retired ...