I started carrying around a pocket version of the U.S. Constitution in my purse in 1998 after I visited South Africa for the first time. It was only four years after the first full democratic election ...

The House of Representatives' reading of the Constitution on the House floor last week caused some cynics a bit of indigestion and opened Republicans up to allegations that they were more interested ...

We recognize Constitution Day — September 17 — to celebrate more than just words on parchment. The Constitution represents a turn in human history away from authoritarianism and toward individual ...

Members of the new Congress devoted a portion of their second day of the new term to reading the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. Read an annotated guide to the full ...

Improbably, the U.S. Constitution has become a runaway bestseller. The reason, of course, is Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic convention, and in particular these words posed to the Republican ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2011— -- Members of the House of Representatives today read the Constitution on the floor of the House chamber, marking a first for Congress. While lawmakers read the amended ...

The midterm elections didn’t provide the red wave Republicans had expected, but they nevertheless gained a small majority in the House of Representatives. In preparing for GOP control of the lower ...