Daniel Webster was one of the seminal figures of 19th century America as an orator and politician. Perhaps less known is…
On this day in 1789, the First Congress under our current Constitution met in its first joint session in New York and undertook an…
In two recent Supreme Court opinions about abortion, the constitutional theory of nullification was cited by several justices. But…
In a Supreme Court plea that almost surely is unique in American history, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on…
President Donald Trump’s lawyers plan, within the next 10 days, to go to the Supreme Court with a plea to rule – before the…
The Justice Department’s announcement of funding sanctions against cities and counties that don’t honor some immigration…
Remarks from a Trump spokesman that the new administration might want legal recreational marijuana sales to end in several states…
There is now a movement afoot by a group seeking a ballot referendum in California for that state to become its own sovereign…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at how part of the debate about a…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s adviser on constitutional literacy, examines the rising pressure that state…
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