President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into ...

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

The scope of President Trump’s challenge to the existing constitutional order — largely through a blitzkrieg of executive ...

Voters gave Mr. Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Congress's neglect of enumerated powers fuels the fusion of spending and regulation, enabling unchecked federal intervention and expanding bureaucratic control.

Feb. 12 is Lincoln's Birthday, a legal state holiday in Connecticut. The post office will remain open, but entities like the ...

To remedy that issue, Aylesworth's constitutional amendment would allow any qualified individual residing in the county where the city or town court is located, or the nearest neighboring Indiana ...

A federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of people in the U.S. illegally, ...