Our government is rooted in the consent of We the People,' retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer writes.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will loan his rare first-edition copies of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights to a Pennsylvania museum for public display ahead of American's 250th anniversary. The ...

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 ...

Hopeful is right. I’m not an optimist, but I’m hopeful that the Constitution can still work for us because I think the Constitution was intended to address exactly the kinds of problems we face now.

WASHINGTON — Calling all history buffs, history teachers or curious individuals to the National Archives to celebrate Constitution Day. To celebrate 250 years of American freedom, the National ...

In honor of the anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, AEI’s Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies division marked Constitution Day with a lecture by Yuval ...

The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was ...

Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It’s in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare hands. There are ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

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In the spring of 2015, few outlets predicted that the US would soon face a democratic crisis. Barack Obama was the president, and the conventional wisdom was that he’d be succeeded by Hillary Clinton ...

The American Revolution is over, and delegates convene to create a new system of government. The American Revolution has ended, but the newly United States teeters on the brink of fracturing.