In 1838, Abraham Lincoln delivered this address to the Young Men’s Lyceum, a debating society in Springfield, Illinois, in the wake of growing mob violence, including the 1837 killing of abolitionist ...

The Tenth Circuit said the program complied with the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, rejecting ...

A challenge to a formula used by a county outside of Washington, D.C., to determine who can attend public magnet schools ...

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in ...

Mercy Otis Warren was deeply connected in the world of Massachusetts Revolutionary politics. The sibling of James Otis, she became friends and regular correspondents with many of the state’s leaders, ...

The National Constitution Center today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Hiram E. Chodosh, President ...

Edmund Randolph introduced the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention, then declined to sign the Constitution due to concerns about a chief executive and the amendment process. Edmund Randolph ...

This program is presented in partnership with The Journal of the Civil War Era. Robert D. Bland is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Requiem for ...

Within the First Congress, James Madison emerged as the leader of the effort to pass a Bill of Rights. In many ways, the “Father of the U.S. Constitution” was an unlikely “Father of the Bill of Rights ...

William Blackstone (1723-80) was the author of A Discourse on the Study of Law (1758), Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69), and other works. These works were for the most part based on ...

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to ...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable ...