We the People of the United States ... it to its counterpart in the compact the Constitution replaced, the Articles of Confederation. There, the states joined in “a firm league of friendship ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article ...

However, in New York Times v. United States (1973), the Supreme Court ruled that a history of the Vietnam War known as the “Pentagon Papers” did not reveal critical information that would ...

President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House later this month, but some Americans may not know that there is a precise moment when that transition of power takes place.

“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.” The Articles of ...

Greenville Democratic leader advocates for President Biden to act to make Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution to ...

no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. The Constitution contained one explicit reference to religion: the Article VI ban ...

Guantanamo Bay, which costs $500 million a year to operate, once held 780 prisoners, allegedly there due to their involvement ...

The chance that Republicans will call a new constitutional convention under Trump has Democrats in state legislatures worried ...

The United States constitution, which was written over two hundred years ago, enshrines an individual's right to keep and bear arms. In 2000, the FBI estimated that 66% of the 15,517 murders that ...

The president-elect has revived his wish to do away with automatic citizenship for anyone born in the United States. The Constitution stands in his way. By Patrick J. Lyons and Isabelle Taft ...