My earlier posts on my book Constitutional Symmetry explained the basic idea of favoring symmetry and summarized the practical and theoretical reasons for this approach. In addition to advancing this ...

CBS News’s flagship program broadcast a call to protect the First Amendment in spite of a Trump administration that has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights, written at the dawn of our republic to guard ...

Sally Field recited the First Amendment on '60 Minutes,' calling it a right she now understands "like never before" nearly 67 years after memorizing it in seventh grade.

Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the constitutional protections we enjoy. The drafters of the Constitution met at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, just over a decade ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: "Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." Congress shall make no law ...