The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

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The left, fuming over the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and its commitment to the plain text of the confounded Constitution, is mounting a new push against originalism. That’s judicial jargon ...

It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to notice that something was missing on the Library of Congress website that annotates the U.S. Constitution. Some people mistakenly said President Donald ...

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.

A new law making it harder to amend the state constitution is the subject of a legal challenge just days after the governor signed the bill. Florida Decides Healthcare, the advocacy group that filed ...

How much do you really know — or truly understand — about the Supreme Law of the Land? The 13th Annual A Conversation with the Constitution event will bring San Antonio students and community members ...

The U.S. Constitution "maybe" requires due process for both citizens and noncitizens, GOP Representative Pete Sessions of Texas said in an interview on CNN Monday. His comments echo those of President ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his allies are putting on the Constitution. They are revealing loopholes, gaps ...

Back in January, Donald Trump once again swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” to the ‘best of his ability’ before becoming president for the second time – but ...