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What does domestic tranquility mean in the Constitution? Breaking down the phrase and exploring why it still matters in ...
In 1787, as delegates emerged from drafting our Constitution, a citizen famously asked Benjamin Franklin what sort of ...
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase ...
Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state ...
Now, the president says he can use federal assets however he sees fit as long as he can argue that their use is for the ...
Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the ...
I took part in a recent National Constitution Center panel on "The War Over Constitutional Meaning." The other participants were Prof. Amanda Shanor (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Prof. Alan Trammell ...
PHOENIX — Despite same-sex marriage being legal in Arizona, some legislators are trying to get the “one man and one woman” definition off the books. Arizona’s voter-passed Proposition 102 in 2008 ...
COLORADO — Coloradans have 14 statewide ballot initiatives to decide on this November. One question, “Amendment 79” is asking about abortion in the state. There are essentially two parts to Amendment ...
For Aizhan Rakhmanova, a PhD graduate in chemical engineering from Nazarbayev University, the Constitution is not an abstract text. “For me, it’s definitely the right to education and freedom of ...
Barrister Njoku Jude Njoku, one of the lawyers representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Supreme Court of Nigeria of “false ...
A “yes” vote on Amendment J repeals language in the Colorado Constitution that defines a valid marriage as a union between one man and one woman. A “no” vote on Amendment J maintains the current ...