U.S. Constitution

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

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.

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

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

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

“Colorblindness,” an ideology that denies race as an organizing principle of the nation’s structural order, reaches back to the drafting of the US Constitution.

Let’s consider the significance and responsibility of outlining, drafting, and shaping our nation as the Founding Fathers put pen to paper.

The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some fundamental protections.

Did the Confederacy have a constitutional right to secede? And did Lincoln violate the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves?

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.

The veneration of the Constitution is directly connected to America’s emergence as global hegemon.

In his new book, The Crooked Path to Abolition, James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

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

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.

The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.