This opinion column was submitted by W. West Allen, national president of the Federal Bar Association and the first Nevada attorney to head a national bar association. The U.S. Constitution is the ...

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky co-launched “We Hold These Truths,” a project focused on public education of basic constitutional principles. Established July 4, the project was ...

PHOENIX, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent history has amply demonstrated that questions of constitutional design and interpretation remain at the center of U.S. politics. Universities and law ...

For 49 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has struggled to justify its decision in Roe v. Wade. But it was difficult to defend the indefensible. Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed serious ...

Signed on September 17, 1787 during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Constitution is a revered document that enshrined our freedoms as Americans and created the nation of laws that ...

Like an individual mixed up about his convictions, a nation perplexed about its principles is prone to self-inflicted wounds. Both are likely to wander aimlessly and choose friends poorly while ...

Several conservative groups recently united to sign a document they called an act of recommitment to America’s founding principles. The Mount Vernon Statement claimed to uphold national independence, ...

Founding Principles Chapter One from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Writing in the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage, Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, expressed ...