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

Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms, or a right that can be exercised only through militia organizations ...

In this episode, I sit down with Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, to discuss her recent book: The Interbellum Constitution (2024). It looks at the ...

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the ...

Should the U.S. Constitution be interpreted and applied according to the original meaning of its text? On June 11, 2018, two leading constitutional legal scholars, Georgetown's Randy Barnett and ...

Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.

The countrys leaders, like President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President C P Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok ...

Our Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the 1787 US Constitution, was ratified on Dec.15, 1791. The First and Second Amendments were tio priority for our Founders. The First Amendment provides ...

Georgia voters face a referendum in November to decide whether to restore provisions of the Georgia Constitution, as well as statutes enacted by the Legislature, that the Georgia Supreme Court struck ...

“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” What does this mean today? Generally speaking, it means that the government may not jail, fine, or impose civil ...

A fundamental revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution has become possible for the first time since it was promulgated in 1947. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now has the opportunity to pursue ...

Should the U.S. Constitution be interpreted and applied according to the original meaning of its text? On June 11, 2018, two leading constitutional legal scholars, Georgetown's Randy Barnett and ...