The United States Constitution was signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. We have entered the 237th year of our national Constitution, which ...

A thousand years from now, how will America be remembered? One filmmaker suggested future history books would emphasize three American creations: baseball, jazz and the Constitution. As a ...

California's judiciary has been selectively interpreting laws and disregarding codified canons of construction, resulting in the preservation of racially tainted convictions and sentences, and the ...

One action or law that violates the letter or established interpretation of the Constitution may simply be unconstitutional, but a series of brazen actions, unlicensed assertions of power that ...

Sept. 17 marked Constitution Day, grounded in a federal law commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. As explained by the courts of Maryland, "By law, all educational ...

The duty of good faith and fair dealing is so important to commercial life that it is deemed an implied term in commercial agreements. Is something similar essential to the practice of constitutional ...

Over a half-century ago, as secretary and elected delegate to the 1973 Constitutional Convention, I drafted and helped secure the enactment of the present Rhode Island Constitution’s provision Article ...

Last summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom made a splashy announcement on a nationally televised morning show. As millions of Americans tuned in over their breakfast and coffee, California's Democratic governor ...

One reason the federal government has become so dysfunctional—it can’t even balance its own budget—is that a key “check and balance” in the Constitution remains unused. This is the right ...

Backers of the proposed Louisiana constitutional convention are considering a new timeline for the event, one that doesn’t coincide with the state lawmakers’ ongoing legislative session. That’s ...