Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation ...

The Brennan Center fights to protect the rights to free speech and freedom of the press. The rights to free speech, protest, ...

My earlier posts on my book Constitutional Symmetry explained the basic idea of favoring symmetry and summarized the practical and theoretical reasons for this approach. In addition to advancing this ...

In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — which would become known as the Bill of Rights — he insisted that the most prominent amendment among ...

The framers of the Constitution added ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, to protect individuals’ rights from being infringed by the government. A democratic government is one in which the ...

In 1953, the physicist Albert Einstein became instrumental in revitalizing the force of the First Amendment as a rhetorical and legal tactic in the congressional hearings. Having fled Germany after ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

A recently passed resolution to limit free speech demonstrates how little the state Republican Party believes in the First Amendment, writes columnist Rod Miller.

Constitution Day is not a federal holiday, and it’s a day that passes by, for the most part, without any fanfare. Most likely, many Americans don’t even realize it is celebrated annually on Sept. 17, ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...