Tenth Amendment

Even before the United States regulated migration, states did. Here’s why.

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.

Doing so might kill the next big liberal idea.

James Oakes’s deeply researched book argues that two very different readings of the 1787 charter put the United States on a course of all but inevitable conflict.

The Department of Homeland Security was supposed to rally nearly two dozen agencies together in a streamlined approach to protecting the country. So what the hell happened?

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.

Conservatives and liberals both cite the nation’s charter, but they’re not talking about the same parts of it.