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

This holiday season, we're grateful for the institutions that have preserved our liberty — even when they frustrate us.

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

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is ...

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

President Donald Trump's various actions that appear to overstep the power of the executive office are creating what many legal scholars call a constitutional crisis. VladSt/DigitalVision Vectors via ...

The issue du jour is deportations, but the question has been a constant of Donald Trump’s presidencies: Is he acting within the Constitution? In his first term, it came up repeatedly: When he tried to ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — While many laws passed during the legislative session take effect immediately or within a year, some legislation takes multiple years to go into effect. The legal change that ...

A portion of Article 1, Section 8, as well as all of Article 1, Sections 9 and 10, were missing from the Constitution Annotated page on the Library of Congress' website the morning of Aug. 6. When the ...