Ninth Amendment—Unenumerated Rights Crushed by Government Power. The Ninth Amendment affirms that the people retain rights ...
Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...
The issue du jour is deportations, but the question has been a constant of Donald Trump’s presidencies: Is he acting within the Constitution? In his first term, it came up repeatedly: When he tried to ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — While many laws passed during the legislative session take effect immediately or within a year, some legislation takes multiple years to go into effect. The legal change that ...
President Donald Trump's various actions that appear to overstep the power of the executive office are creating what many legal scholars call a constitutional crisis. VladSt/DigitalVision Vectors via ...
More than a half-century ago, during Watergate, President Richard Nixon had a stand-off with the Justice Department, and the courts. On Oct. 20, 1973, the president demanded that attorney general ...
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 ...
Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...
Voters will decide on 17 proposed changes to the Texas Constitution this fall, deciding whether to throw their support behind amendments that would cut property taxes, codify the rights of parents, ...
Congressional Republicans have repeatedly failed a simple test: Choose between President Trump and the Constitution. An upcoming vote will give Senators another chance to make a better choice. It ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) fundamentally misinterprets the Constitution with his remarks about the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal spending without involving Congress. Johnson ...