Stephanie O’Rourke’s letter on Aug. 25 on the Second Amendment is well-written but suffers from false assumptions about why the Second Amendment exists. O’Rourke states that “the Second Amendment ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...

This is in response to the Nov. 23 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “What the Founding Fathers actually said about gun rights.” The Founding Fathers could not have envisioned the most advanced ...

Like many other aspects of our democracy, the First Amendment is under direct attack by the Trump administration. Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for writing stories that are critical of him.

I am tired of hearing about the sanctity of Second Amendment rights and then reading about the “violence” and “abuse” of First Amendment rights as expressed in letters “First Amendment doesn’t protect ...

Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana is widely credited with drafting the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1967 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Hence ...

Closer study of our Second Amendment by readers and writers like Stephanie O’Rourke and Max Reichard is always welcome. Accurate understanding of historical context is required. The amendment, part of ...

The U.S. Constitution contains many vital amendments, but the First Amendment stands above the rest as the foundation of our democracy. It guarantees freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and ...

New Orleans votes Nov. 15 on a charter amendment that will resolve legal conflicts before they ignite hostilities between the mayor and council. The amendment also protects independent legal advice ...

While I am disgusted by some of the posts regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I am reminded that this was an individual who believed so strongly in the First Amendment. He dedicated his life ...