One action or law that violates the letter or established interpretation of the Constitution may simply be unconstitutional, but a series of brazen actions, unlicensed assertions of power that ...

A public opinion poll conducted on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution in 1987 revealed that most Americans knew little about the document’s contents and purpose. Only a ...

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.

The Supreme Court, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, is a “storm center.” Conflicts over institutional power, individual rights and, most significantly, the meaning of the Constitution all ...

MY three-part column late last month suggesting an agenda for the incoming Senate discussed cursorily five interrelated topics among the myriad that need reforms: political dynasties, the perverted ...