As we celebrate our nation's founding in a tumultuous time, holiday serves as a reminder to appreciate the freedoms enshrined ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

The legal battle over the Constitution’s 14th Amendment may be just beginning, after President Donald Trump decreed in an executive order — and six months later the Supreme Court did ...

At their convention in 1787, delegates from the former colonies of Great Britain wrote the Constitution of the United States of America to protect the rights of individuals from the ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...

The Kerala High Court has struck down Sections 3 and 4 of the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Act, 1975 (the State Act), finding them to be repugna ...

Amendment XXV Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified February 10, 1967. Note: Article II, section 1, of the Constitution was affected by the 25th amendment. Section 1. In case of the removal of the ...

The state constitution requires the Legislature to control pollution but contains no language how this is to be enforced. The ...

New details have been released in the investigation that led to the arrest of a Lake Havasu City firefighter last week on ...

Iowa last lost 99 percent of its prairie land, 75 percent of its woodlands and forests and about 260 plant species are considered endangered and threatened. A new report says implementation of ...

This term was marked by sharp right turns in major civil rights cases, a mixed record on lower-profile cases, and mixed ...

Ohio’s constitution includes a ban on same-sex marriage after 61.7% of Ohio voters approved an amendment in 2004 that says marriage is only between one man and one woman. The United States Supreme ...