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 ...

Chief Justice John Marshall’s landmark opinion for the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) articulated foundational principles that have shaped American constitutional law to this day. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Vote Here” signs are posted during primary election voting held at the Lehi Public Safety Building in Lehi on Tuesday, June 25, ...

For 49 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has struggled to justify its decision in Roe v. Wade. But it was difficult to defend the indefensible. Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed serious ...

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky co-launched “We Hold These Truths,” a project focused on public education of basic constitutional principles. Established July 4, the project was ...

Like an individual mixed up about his convictions, a nation perplexed about its principles is prone to self-inflicted wounds. Both are likely to wander aimlessly and choose friends poorly while ...

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Upholding constitutional principles is not an appropriate role for a member of the Federal Election Commission, Democratic Commissioner Ann Ravel said on Thursday. The comments came as part of a ...

Several conservative groups recently united to sign a document they called an act of recommitment to America’s founding principles. The Mount Vernon Statement claimed to uphold national independence, ...

Founding Principles Chapter One from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Writing in the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage, Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, expressed ...