Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

The politics of 21st-century America has overflowed with constitutional controversies. From debates about war and emergency powers to litigation over health care, marriage, religious liberty, ...

This week, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court heard arguments over whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson unlawfully misinformed the queen when he asked to suspend Parliament for five weeks in order to ...

The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

One action or law that violates the letter or established interpretation of the Constitution may simply be unconstitutional, but a series of brazen actions, unlicensed assertions of power that ...

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 ...

A conversation with the legal scholar on why its unusual the Constitution is core to American national identity and his new book The Constitutional Bind. Why do so many Americans worship the US ...

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the ...

The Man Who Charmed the Women on The View, & Singing for the Poor in Rome Medicine at Michigan Shamefully Honors Jack Kevorkian Delighting in Certain Violence: Guarding Our Souls in the 2025 USA Memo ...

President Obama seems to be doing everything in his power, and quite a few things that are not legitimately within his power, to bring about a constitutional crisis. He has repeatedly suspended laws ...

After an Introduction that provides an overview of the book, The Collective-Action Constitution unfolds in three parts over eleven numbered chapters, followed by a brief Conclusion. Part I discusses ...

Richard Calland is a partner in political risk consultancy, The Paternoster Group, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC).