NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

Now, as much as at any time in our history, it is important for Americans to heed the meaning behind Constitution Week, which concludes today. An appropriate way to honor the foundational document of ...

This is the 11th in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. A historian could tell a significant portion of English and American Colonial history using the Bill of Rights as a guide. A defense ...

Gun rights advocates always cite the Second Amendment as justification for the proliferation of guns and prohibition of limits on them, but they ignore the “well regulated Militia” part. To find what ...

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of ...

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His ...

It may be a bit old-fashioned, but when I was growing up words mattered. We were taught how to spell and write (yes, with a pen and with a hand) and were instructed to march to the dictionary (it's a ...

A definition of marijuana offenses written by the Missouri Supreme Court contradicts an amendment passed by voters.

I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...

As Donald Trump vows to deport millions of undocumented migrants, NBC’s Kristen Welker asked the president several times if he felt bound by the due process clause of the Constitution. And several ...

PHOENIX — Despite same-sex marriage being legal in Arizona, some legislators are trying to get the “one man and one woman” definition off the books. Arizona’s voter-passed Proposition 102 in 2008 ...