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

Most countries emerged from a shared language, lineage, or ancient heritage. The United States built a state first and then had to discover what it meant to be a nation.

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Good faith and fair dealing—adherence to what we might call “norms”—is essential to the functioning of American government.

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is ...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving gratitude, it’s time to show a little love for US federal district judges. While the Supreme Court justices get the glory (and these days, the blame), district court ...

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 ...

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 ...

The White House website always undergoes a renovation when a president first takes office. The removal of the Constitution page may have been in error, or perhaps only temporary. As the transition ...

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, ...

A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers' ...