US Constitution

ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It’s in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, ...

A constitution is a guarantor of the general welfare only so long as its provisions are publicly acknowledged ...

'Parents, not the government, have the right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children'

Gun rights advocates claim the government's gun control agenda will fail in high-profile legal actions that bring up ...

Says it gave out pocket books, but according to emails and critics that only happened after threats of ...

Commentary On Sept. 14 I gave a speech in Washington for Hillsdale College, the prestigious Midwestern American conservative ...

From the start of his term, President Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to destroy his political ...

Commentary As you may know, the primary “constitutional” justification for our out-of-control administrative state is a grossly bloated ...

Commentary Self-governing citizens in a free republic need to know the structure of their government and the content ...

One way that some writers try to discredit the U.S. Constitution is to assert that the document’s original ...

When arguing that the Constitution stems from, and continues to reflect, “systemic racism,” critics point to Article I, ...

This essay addresses one of the most persistent criticisms of the Constitution: that it was adopted to protect, ...

Critics have attacked the Constitution’s allocation of two senators for each state, irrespective of the size of each ...

This essay examines the claim that the framers—the Constitution’s drafters—staged a coup d’état by proposing a new Constitution. ...

“Originalism” is a modern term for applying the Constitution as understood by those who adopted it. This is ...

A lawyer in Boulder, Colorado, has been buying billboard space to attack the Second Amendment right to keep ...

Liberal academics and judges frequently claim that many constitutional phrases are vague or meaningless. Or, as stated by ...

The previous essay explained that the Constitution is fundamentally a document granting enumerated (listed) powers. Like all such ...

Many people characterize the U.S. Constitution as vague or filled with broad generalities. Others identify it as the ...

Commentary I fled academia in 2010 because of its increasingly bizarre environment. Since then, the situation has only ...

Commentary Every so often you read about a survey in which scholars rate the performance of previous American ...

Commentary Some in the media and academia have been hyperventilating about a point of constitutional law they call ...

Nebraska on Jan. 28 became the 17th state to push for a convention of states to make changes ...

NEW YORK—A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2 million, ...

Commentary Last week’s installment covered the first three parts of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment—the Citizenship Clause, ...

Commentary Past installments in the “Understanding the Constitution” series have focused mostly on the original, un-amended document. This ...

Commentary This column examines the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson (pdf) and why ...