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 ...

There is little our Founders missed in crafting our nation's Constitution, notably its separation of powers and checks and balances. They were children of the Enlightenment and their studied view of ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I had intended to blog last week about the Republicans setting aside time last ...

Today is Constitution Day, a federally observed day to recognize the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. On Sept. 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document on which the ...

When the new Republican majority in the House decided to kick off the legislative session by reading the Constitution, the liberal reaction was instructive. Some accused Republicans of "hijacking" a ...

Constitution Day is Sept. 17, and I think we should make a bigger deal about it. On that day in 1787, 39 white men signed a document whose first words declare, "We the People." No founding document ...

KUTV — Kari Hawker-Diaz spoke to Shannon Bowler and Brian Shelley about an upcoming live constitution reading. In celebration of U.S. Constitution Day, United We Pledge is proud to host a special ...

At the National Constitution Center, we make a big deal out of Constitution Day as an all-day event. But we aren’t the only Americans who are celebrating the 226 th birthday of our founding document ...

As astute commentators have noted, the draft opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization not only seeks to overrule Roe vs. Wade, but might also someday threaten other decisions like ...

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 ...

About 10 years ago, I spent a sabbatical on the Maine coast writing a book about the Constitution. One afternoon, an eager reference librarian who knew about my interests invited me to a talk at the ...