Written constitutionalism implies that those who make, interpret, and enforce the law ought to be guided by the meaning of the United States Constitution—the supreme law of the land—as it was ...

than had pre-existed the Constitution. Yet a New York Anti-Federalist who wrote under the pseudonym Brutus professed to believe that, to carry out the mandate, it would be “necessary to abolish ...

Yet he liked the resulting Constitution enough to become chief advocate for its approval by the states. Hamilton wrote the bulk of the essays that argued most convincingly for ratification.

When Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment in 2020, we expected it to be published by archivist. Trump stopped it.

When the U.S. Constitution was written, in 1787, it was a startling political novelty, even in an age of constitution-making. Before the Constitutional Convention, James Madison made a study of ...

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The Constitution was uncovered two years ago at a historical plantation once owned by Samuel Johnston, who was the North Carolina governor at the time the document was written. Brunk Auctions The ...

The Constitution itself was unharmed, but the incident led the archives to close to the public for four days and to beef up security. In a statement read in court, Green wrote: “I did genuinely ...