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

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

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

THE debate over an anti-political dynasty law often proceeds as if the problem were merely political will. If only Congress ...

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

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Harvard history professor Jill Lepore about the state of the U.S. Constitution, 236 years after its ratification. This week marks 236 years since the United States ...

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 ...

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 ...