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 ...

“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.” ...

Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which ...

Frustrated with the Constitution's allocation of power between the legislature and executive, the president has hijacked the appropriations power. Alex Wong / TNS We are joining more than 100 former ...

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 ...

Abstract: Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan was guided by the principles of the American founding, especially the idea of ordered liberty. In the opening of his first inaugural address in 1981, ...

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 ...

Weaich explores how South Africa's constitutional principles shape its foreign policy decisions and the challenges it faces ...

The so-called application of the Constitution refers to the special activities of the specific state organs applying the constitutional norms to the specific legal facts based on the statutory ...