Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights establishes rights to speech, religion, press, and assembly. Monday night in Austin and Dallas, police broke up protests in the streets over the federal ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

My earlier posts on my book Constitutional Symmetry explained the basic idea of favoring symmetry and summarized the practical and theoretical reasons for this approach. In addition to advancing this ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing.

Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: "Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." Congress shall make no law ...