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Opinion: The constitutional right of the people to the initiative and referendum process is one that must be guarded, ...
My fascination with the Constitution has recently come back with a passion. Maybe it’s my looming entrance into law school this fall, or maybe it’s my course material, but I’m finding myself searching ...
The Constitution starts with "We the People." But what does that mean? Learn more through interviews featured in CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal.
Bestselling author A.J. Jacobs visited the Constitution up close at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. — and argues Americans need to be reminded of the value of "We the People." ...
In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.
The Constitution describes the duties and obligations of the three branches of federal government – legislative, executive and judicial – and the rights of the federal government and the states.
During our commemoration of Constitution Week, Sept. 17-23, it often is appropriate to remember that the United States Constitution was not our first form of government following the Revolutionary ...
We would therefore like to present a few fundamentals that hinge on the idea that We the People and the Constitution are intertwined based on a three-tiered, knowledge-based relationship.
Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those of elites, argues bestselling historian Lepore (These Truths) in ...
“We the People,” the opening words of the Preamble to the United States Constitution, signifies that the power of the U.S. government originates from the citizens, not the government itself.
BOOK REVIEW A presidential power grab? We’ve survived it before In ‘The Presidents and the People,’ Corey Brettschneider chronicles previous clashes between the chief executive and the rest ...
The Constitution starts with "We the People." But what does that mean? Learn more through interviews featured in CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal.