Bill of Rights

A new book argues that the fetishization of the first ten amendments is a recent thing – and that it comes at a cost.

At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.

David Beito has penned one of the most damning scholarly histories of FDR to date.

When we try to recover the “original meaning” of constitutional amendments, we begin with deeply engrained premises about the nature of what we're looking for.

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

The long road to "Citizens United."

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.

King George's tax collectors abused police powers to fill his coffers. Sound familiar?

How should the courts use history?

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

Why do we lock up so many people?

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.