Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...

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 ...

"We The People" have been talking a lot about our founding document—the United States' Constitution, a 233-year-old rule book for American life and governance that's especially relevant right now. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the core of many of America’s most heated debates—affirmative action, voting rights, reparations—is an unsettled question the nation has wrestled with for nearly two centuries: Does the ...