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 ...

Twenty years ago, when my kids were little, and we went on long drives, my wife and I would play an audiotape of the Amelia Bedelia stories, by Peggy Parish, to keep them occupied. Amelia Bedelia is a ...

The new Republican majority in the House, especially those with Tea Party backing, revere the US Constitution as the last word on American government. But what was read yesterday on the House floor ...

The formal reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives is one of those events that bring a knowing smile to the face of sophisticated liberals, the sort of people who curl up next to ...

Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte is eager to reinforce the principles put forward in the Constitution, and this morning, he will lead a reading of that document on the floor of Congress. Today's ...

In the 1980s, after two decades of judicial activism, Antonin Scalia and a small band of brothers made the case for “originalism” and “textualism”—for interpreting the Constitution according to its ...

Each participant will copy a section of the U.S. Constitution by hand, word for word, and then read it aloud. A discussion ...

To mark the ceremonial reading of the U.S. Constitution in the House of Representatives today (a project organized by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke County), let's start the day with this . . . This is ...