Many provisions of the nation’s founding charter have taken on new significance as the president tests the limits of his power.

The entire document is open to the public at the National Archives through Oct. 9. Visitors expressed pride seeing it — and concerns about the nation’s future.

The checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated, yet ...

Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government.

The National Archives show includes the rarely displayed fifth page of the U.S. Constitution featuring the signature of ...

Making amendments possible again would not weaken the Constitution — it would save it. It would remind us that the document ...

The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership held its annual Constitution Day lecture at Old Main, marking 238 ...

To mark Constitution Day, the National Archives for the first time in history displayed all the pages of the Constitution for public viewing on Wednesday.

More than 165 international constitutions include gender equality, and ours should, too. In January 2020, Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, becoming the final state needed to add about 170 ...

If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his ...