Beyond picking governors, state legislators, local officials and representatives to serve in Congress, voters in almost every ...

The U.S. Mint is releasing the fourth in a series of 250th anniversary quarters today. After releasing the Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence coins earlier in the ...

Most Americans support term limits, campaign spending caps, and Electoral College reform, but achieving these changes likely would require amending one of the world's hardest constitutions to change.

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

The Constitution may have earned an A in civics, but in terms of grammar and consistency, it's well below the (Liberty) bell curve In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was drafted by members of the ...

One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer Supported by By Jennifer Szalai The United States Constitution is ...

One sparks a revolution, while the other structures a nation. Do you know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Packed with history and visionary ideas (and even ...

As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, ...

Most Americans haven't read the U.S. Constitution in a long time, if ever. They may be able to tell you about the Second Amendment, or the Fifth, maybe even part of the First. But other than that? A ...