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The First Amendment's 'Free Exercise Clause' protects religion from goverment, and attacks on immigrants are wasteful and hateful, our readers write ...
"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...
Justices said in a June 10 ruling that the state constitution included a "right to be left alone" and have access to ...
PINEY FLATS, Tenn. (WCYB) — Rocky Mount Historic Site in Piney Flats held an event Saturday celebrating Colonial Independence ...
How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.
Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to ...
In recent weeks, there’s been a renewed political pushback against the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble to the ...
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...
HERE IT IS. July 5, and we celebrated the 249th anniversary of our independence as a nation. It seems we have moved from a ...
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 ...
Every year we republish the Declaration of Independence. 2025 is different. Read it with friends. Read it with family. Read ...
Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.