Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His ...

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 ...

Author and historian Jill Lepore’s new book examines the political gridlock that has left many voters disillusioned with both ...

For more than 30 years now, our federal courts have ground to a halt over the single dumbest debate ever thunk up by humans. Does the Constitution mean what the Constitution says? Legal mouth ...

This is the 11th in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. A historian could tell a significant portion of English and American Colonial history using the Bill of Rights as a guide. A defense ...

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility ... do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America ...

I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...

The Constitution has been the glue holding the United States government together for more than 200 years. Al Aiken and other members of the Virginia Liberty Project believe that understanding the ...

The Arkansas House of Representatives approved on Monday a measure that would give the state attorney general the authority to reject a ballot initiative title if it contradicts the U.S. Constitution ...

Minnesotans do not appear willing to change the states constitution to define marriage. Of the record 12,549 people participating in the 2011 House of Representatives State Fair Poll, 66.5 percent ...