U.S. Constitution

What does the U.S. Constitution have to say about the current impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate? What does historical precedent say? In this episode, we sit down with constitutional ...

Commentary There's a very strong argument that the Constitution does not permit impeachment of a former president. Unfortunately, ...

Commentary Does the U.S. Senate have jurisdiction to try former President Donald Trump? There's no shortage of absolute ...

The upcoming Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is a first-of-its-kind proceeding and legal scholars have ...

Commentary This is the fifth essay in a five-part series. Almost immediately upon taking office, President Joe Biden ...

Commentary Imagine a nation conceived in a struggle for liberation from distant imperial management, born out of a ...

Commentary This is the third essay in a five-part series. The Article of Impeachment against President Donald Trump ...

Commentary One way some writers try to discredit the U.S. Constitution is to assert that the document’s original ...

Commentary The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the Texas electoral lawsuit has all but ended our constitutional system ...

Commentary The Supreme Court’s refusal on Dec. 11—purely on standing grounds—marks the latest in a long line of ...

A student at Vanderbilt University reportedly lost points on a quiz for not agreeing that the U.S. Constitution ...

Commentary The word “consensus” comes from a Latin root that means “feeling together.” Fundamentally, consensus is about feeling ...

Commentary "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for ...

Commentary Buried deep in his magisterial second volume of "Democracy in America" (1840), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) makes ...

Commentary The definition of human rights has changed drastically since America's Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence ...

Commentary Widespread public dissatisfaction with the federal government has sparked interest in recalibrating the system. One obvious way ...

Commentary Suppose you're supervising a group of 25 randomly chosen able-bodied people. You organize an informal game of ...

Commentary Dec. 15, 2018, was Bill of Rights Day. The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) appended ...

Commentary When President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it was widely ...

Commentary On Sept. 18, the four Democratic members of the Gang of Eight sent what can only be ...

  Dr. Zaman Stanizai is a professor of Mythological Studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, ...

President-elect Donald Trump drew ire after tweeting a proposal to ban burning of the U.S. flag. "Nobody should ...

LOS ANGELES—A pocket version of the U.S. Constitution has become a best-seller on Amazon.com. The 52-page pamphlet printed ...

And Giovanni Capriglione has more plans now the bill has become law.