We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is ...

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 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday claimed Donald Trump will try to gut the First and Second Amendments if elected — even though she herself has a record of cracking down on free speech and ...

The Constitution shouldn’t be rewritten for every new communications technology. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this long-standing principle during its most recent term in applying the 1st Amendment to ...

“With all thy getting, get understanding." Most Americans don’t have much in faith in our political institutions these days and think the country is going in the wrong direction. In such frustrating ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

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 ...

On Friday Nov. 14, officials from the Rhode Island Judiciary, the Rhode Island Bar Association, and the Secretary of State's ...