Edwin Meese III, who served as the nation's 75th attorney general, joined The Heritage Foundation in 1988 as the think tank's first Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow. He went on to oversee the legal ...

NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.

The Constitution is the American people’s rulebook for government and therefore must be actively applied and defended to ensure that government does not get out of control. Many people probably think ...

Five decades ago, originalism wasn’t even an -ism. In the academy, at the bar, and on the courts, the Constitution was interpreted as a living, breathing document. Contemporary values mattered more ...

In honor of Constitution Day we pose the question: Which part of the Constitution governs the use of laser pointers? It sounds like a dumb question, since the Constitution predated the laser by 171 ...

During oral argument at the Supreme Court in December over Mississippi’s abortion ban, Justice Sonia Sotomayor laid bare a fundamental truth: “There’s so much that’s not in the Constitution.” Her ...

A majority of Americans (55%) now say the U.S. Supreme Court should base its rulings on what the Constitution “means in current times,” while 41% say rulings should be based on what it “meant as ...

The sharp debate in Israel last year over “judicial reform” raised basic questions that arise in most democracies about constitutions: What are they meant to be and to do? Even the definition of a ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is seen on a video display as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on Tuesday.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Judge Jackson distanced herself from the idea that the meaning of ...

Americans deeply disagree on the substance of many constitutional issues. Does the Second Amendment cover semiautomatic rifles? Does a woman have a constitutional right to an abortion? But there is ...

I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...