“Tis funny about th’ constitution,” said Mr. Dooley, the legendary, philosophical Irish bartender created by Finley Peter Dunne. “It reads plain, but no wan can undherstant it without an interpreter.” ...

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 ...

All too often, judges allow sentiment to override the Constitution. While they might refer to a “living Constitution,” what ...

Sept. 17’s Constitution Day marked the 234-year anniversary of the signing of our nation’s founding document. In reflecting on the U.S. Constitution, there is often a tendency to focus on the Bill of ...

What do the following events in U.S. history have in common? • The Alien and Sedition Acts, the Civil War to preserve slavery, the brutal apartheid of segregation, the 01/06 insurrection, post-01/06 ...

The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution was supposed to affirm the sovereignty of individual states. However, after years ...

Regarding David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman’s “The Temptation of the ‘Common Good’” (op-ed, July 24): There is always a temptation to seek a shortcut around the hard work of politics and persuading our ...

Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration has undertaken a blitzkrieg attack on two fundamental principles of our Constitutional system: separation of powers and checks and balances. The duty of the ...