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 ...

In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny. However, the Constitution actually advanced ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of India’s Constitution, held that constitutional morality is inherent in the form of the Constitution. Then again, the constitutional form can be perverted through ma ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and rereading today.

Checks and Imbalances: While president Donald Trump defies constitutional norms through executive orders and agency purges, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...