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 ...

Even for a Congress known to battle over every little detail, reading the U.S. Constitution aloud sounded like a simple exercise. Turned out it wasn't. Newly sworn members of the House reading aloud ...

Tomorrow is election day.  Your right to vote in a local election is enshrined by the US Constitution's 10th amendment.  We’ll talk with U.S. Documents Librarian Cass Hartnett about why for the past ...

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) wants Democrats and Republicans to evenly share the task of reading the Constitution on the House floor Thursday. The GOP wants to start the day by reading the ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took turns reading the Constitution on the House floor Thursday, a nod to tea partiers who put Republicans in power. Even the nation’s founding text got caught in political ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans’ reading of the Constitution was interrupted Thursday by a woman who shouted “except Obama, except Obama” to the venerable document’s words on a U.S. citizen’s ...

Among Republicans' first acts after officially taking over the U.S. House this week is a reading of the Constitution on the floor of the chamber scheduled for Thursday. At first it looked like it ...

Sherrilyn A. Ifill, who teaches at the law school of the University of Maryland, writes about the law for The Root. I started carrying around a pocket version of the U.S. Constitution in my purse in ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took turns reading the Constitution on the House floor Thursday, a nod to tea partiers who put Republicans in power. Even the nation’s founding text got caught in political ...