But that comment (which I should stress was the commenter's view, not necessarily Ilya's) is not correct, I think. We can see that from the Preamble, which reads, We the People of the United States, ...

With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

The more conservative elements in our country espouse freedom as a fundamental right and admonish government for interfering with those freedoms. The Constitution is often brought up as support. This ...

Efforts on both right and left to make the democracy-promotion the key focus of constitutional law should be rejected. There is a long history of efforts to show that the promotion of democracy is the ...

We are a resilient nation. We have weathered terrible things — wars, slavery, economic crises, pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks. We even survived a brutal and divisive civil war. Our ...

Gale said the Constitution's framers believed - wrongly, as it turned out - that the slavery debate would be resolved within two or three decades. Instead, the slavery issue was not decided for almost ...

As the pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others charged with masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks proceed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to ...