To celebrate the nation's 250th birthday next summer, the National Constitution Center plans to open two new galleries that shine light on America's founding principles and explore core tenets of its ...

With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional Convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

I recently made a pilgrimage to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see the United States Constitution — the one that George Washington and 38 other Founders signed with a goose quill 238 ...

The Constitution doesn’t guarantee national unity. It guarantees something better: a system that channels conflict without ...

This interview was originally published in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune. The United States is a country riven by political and cultural fractures and tensions. And in the present day, the American ...

When it comes to celebrating Constitution Day, it may be considered atypical to think of the Declaration of Independence. After all, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were two ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism ...

In the spring of 1814, 25 years after the ratification of America’s Constitution, a group of 112 Norwegian men—civil servants, lawyers, military officials, business leaders, theologians, and even a ...