For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

It is arguably the three most powerful words in history, “we the people.” Our country’s founders, 235 years ago, came to Philadelphia and ratified the Constitution of the United States of America, and ...

Not so long ago, originalism seemed safely contained. Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, but when ...

Something like the idea animating The Collective-Action Constitution—or a narrower, more implicit, and more intuitive version of it—has been around for a long time and has been articulated in many ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court's new term is here, offering new opportunities for the justices to remake our constitutional rights in the name of history. In its last two terms alone, the court did just that ...

Has Akhil Reed Amar grown tired of constitutional law? It certainly seems so. The Yale professor burst on the scene in 1998 with The Bill of Rights, a brilliant book that managed a most extraordinary ...

Paul G. Summers is an attorney. He formerly served as an appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues ...

THE SIGNING OF CALIFORNIA'S CONSTITUTION REALLY SHOWS YOU THE RICH HISTORY OF MONTEREY.## NAT POP- PERFORMANCE 176 YEARS OF RICH HISTORY HERE IN MONTEREY COUNTY NAT POP OCTOBER 13TH, 1849 MARKS THE ...