Through debate, disagreement and compromise, they produced a Constitution and Bill of Rights designed not to expand ...

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified following vigorous national debate on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791. Their passage came ...

Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the constitutional protections we enjoy. The drafters of the Constitution met at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, just over a decade ...

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin believes American prosperity is a testament to the power of the Constitution. And as the country gets ready to celebrate its 250th anniversary next year, with Philadelphia ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

U.S. CONSTITUTION. WE THE PEOPLE. THE FIRST THREE WORDS OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION THE BEDROCK FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT OF BEING A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS UNDERSTANDING THE CONSTITUTION, KNOWING ...

American parents have — and should have — a fundamental right to make basic choices regarding their children. These rights now are at the core of passionate debate — and social media outrage — about ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will loan his rare first-edition copies of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights to a Pennsylvania museum for public display ahead of American's 250th anniversary. The ...

The administration’s detention and removal of immigrants without free speech, due process, and judicial authority is a crisis for immigrants and a sign that our democracy is in peril. The first 100 ...