Ninth Amendment—Unenumerated Rights Crushed by Government Power. The Ninth Amendment affirms that the people retain rights ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On ...

Good faith and fair dealing—adherence to what we might call “norms”—is essential to the functioning of American government.

War is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional ...

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is ...

Most countries emerged from a shared language, lineage, or ancient heritage. The United States built a state first and then had to discover what it meant to be a nation.

A 31-year military veteran argues that Trump and his circle, not his opposition, pose the true domestic threat to the ...

Although often commonly referred to as the “sweeping clause” or the “elastic clause,” the “necessary and proper” clause is not in fact as expansive as its nicknames suggests. After listing the 17 ...

The following is an entry concerning the first section of Amendment 14 of the Constitution as found in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution. Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens ...

The Constitution's last update was in 1992, is it time for another Amendment? Feb. 12, 2013 -- The Constitution has held the United States government together for more than 200 years with remarkably ...

You cannot hold an election in legal darkness. A constitution is the spine of a nation. A census is the heartbeat of ...