The legislative history of the 14th Amendment is clear that it only grants birthright citizenship to the children of people ...

he wrote. Here's what you need to know. David Schultz, a professor at the University of Minnesota and national expert in ...

Written constitutionalism implies that those who make, interpret, and enforce the law ought to be guided by the meaning of the United States Constitution—the supreme law of the land—as it was ...

Yet he liked the resulting Constitution enough to become chief advocate for its approval by the states. Hamilton wrote the bulk of the essays that argued most convincingly for ratification.

than had pre-existed the Constitution. Yet a New York Anti-Federalist who wrote under the pseudonym Brutus professed to believe that, to carry out the mandate, it would be “necessary to abolish ...

Parts of the Constitution are well written, though they weren’t originally intended to apply to everyone. Much of it could ...

Author A.J. Jacobs spent a year living like a Founding Father to better understand the U.S. Constitution ... to life (including the guy who literally wrote the words down—an assistant clerk ...

The Constitution was uncovered two years ago at a historical plantation once owned by Samuel Johnston, who was the North Carolina governor at the time the document was written. Brunk Auctions The ...

"Elias Boudinot was a conservative at heart," Andrew Farmer wrote in "Ordinary Greatness ... owners who had also opposed ratification of the Constitution. They were Aedanus Burke and Thomas ...

The Constitution itself was unharmed, but the incident led the archives to close to the public for four days and to beef up security. In a statement read in court, Green wrote: “I did genuinely ...

The question to ask Ms. Lorenzen is this: Do you really think that the Founding Fathers and framers of the U.S. Constitution who wrote the Constitution and fought and died for this country would ...