Jeffery Rosen and David Rubenstein explain why the three most important documents in American history matter – and what they mean - as Constitution Daily counts down to the debut on December 15 ...

A constitution is a collection of the basic principles and procedures for the Government of a State or other organisation. Thus, there are constitutions for clubs and citizens’ organisations as ...

The U.S. Constitution is the object of reverence for nearly all Americans and an object of admiration by peoples around the world. Ed Meese explains why.

The Constitution is short on purpose. The states were divided over a great many matters, including of course what to do about slavery, an institution the document intentionally (but obliquely ...

The "meaning" of a constitutional provision lies in what it does, or does not, authorize or prohibit. Constitutional provisions have no meaning in the abstract.

In this essay from the National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution project, Geoffrey R. Stone and Eugene Volokh explain the meaning and limitations of free speech under the First ...

If the Constitution meant whatever judges wanted it to mean, judges would be able to set their own rules. They would control the Constitution, not vice versa.

A Constitution Day note: Legislators demonstrate an enduring tendency to make the Constitution say whatever they want it to.

The Constitution’s framers “chose their words carefully,” he said, and those words “meant something.” The Supreme Court’s job was to find and enforce that meaning.

Members of the BC community shared what the words of the Constitution mean to them. Sarah Lunnie, senior dramaturg at The Public Theater and BC ’08, said the framers of the Constitution were like ...