Wisconsin's April 1 election includes a high-stakes Supreme Court race and plenty of local offices, but a statewide referendum question on Wisconsin's voter ID law at the bottom of the ballot has ...

The pardon power stands as the ultimate guarantor of legal impunity. Madison understood that the Constitution could not enforce itself. What was needed was a culture of tension between branches.

The Madison City Clerk’s Office announced Dec. 26 — more than a month after the election — that 193 absentee ballots cast in ...

City attorney and veteran elections official Mike Haas will fill in for Maribeth Witzel-Behl and oversee the April 1 election.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The Constitution itself — which Madison designed both to establish the federal government and to limit it — has been a dismal failure as an ...

April 1 is Wisconsin's Spring Election. Read about the state Supreme Court race, a constitutional amendment, plus Madison ...

In doing so, he may be headed to a test of one of the most foundational cases in American constitutional law, Marbury v. Madison, in which the Supreme Court established the principle that the ...

The accumulation of power in the same hands — whether elected or not — in the view of James Madison and others is the ...