Each September, we celebrate Constitution Day, honoring the document that defines our government and secures our rights. But constitutions don’t defend themselves. They work only when citizens ...

Jill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late David McCullough.

When a president implies that he has some special responsibility to the nation above the Constitution, our governing document ...

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 ...

"The Constitution has protected us for 200 years. The question is, can we protect the Constitution for the next 200 hundred ...

Two sections of the U.S Constitution detailing habeas corpus protections and the rights and limitations of state governments have disappeared from the official congressional website, Constitution ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.

"I am very angry." Those words from Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman were something of an understatement in our debate at Colgate University last week over whether our country is in a ...

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 ...