The Constitution of the United States has endured ... on the consent of a free people. Thomas Jefferson had set forth the basic principle in his famous formulation: We hold these truths to be ...
The story of how we gained our Bill of Rights shows the influence of the states 233 years ago, and it can remind us of the ...
The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” ...
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll end birthright citizenship, after years of criticizing the constitutional right.
When rights become privileges, then the Constitution and the government’s adherence to the rule of law will become optional.
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...