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The conservative legal movement has long prided itself on following the text of the Constitution and federal statutes. Originalism and textualism are both legal philosophies that prize the plain ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to notice that something was missing on the Library of Congress website that annotates the U.S. Constitution. Some people mistakenly said President Donald ...

President Trump on Thursday called for "a new and highly accurate" census that excludes undocumented immigrants, an unusual move that could set up another legal challenge of the U.S. Constitution. The ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States granting a president immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct within his “core constitutional powers” and for other ...

The state argued in favor of the gun control measure, calling it a reasonable response to public safety concerns.