Each September 17, our nation pauses to recognize Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of the United States Constitution in 1787. It is a day not just for lawyers, judges, or politicians–it is ...

AS we approach the end of the year, one dominated by allegations of massive corruption in government, we need to consider our ...

Throughout history, civil rights leaders have relied on the Constitution in speeches, in protests, and in court. Frederick Douglass called it a “glorious liberty document.” Susan B. Anthony argued ...

Not since Richard Nixon's presidency has anyone really had to worry about the vitality of our nation's Constitution. Nixon flouted the law of the land and the norms of democracy, and the Constitution ...

President Joe Biden’s recent nomination of Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court is unprecedented. There has never before been a Black woman nominated to the nation’s highest court—a ...

The House of Representatives said on Monday that it will address the pitfalls that led to the failure of past constitutional amendments in the country by working closely with the Executive at the ...

It was a remarkable day in the U.S. Senate back in 2011, as two Supreme Court justices addressed the chamber's Judiciary Committee. They were not there to be grilled for confirmation hearings, but to ...

A group of cryptocurrency investors took the notion “We the people” from the US Constitution to the next level. They pooled money to try to buy a rare copy of the document — and they claimed to have ...

Each day, the journalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution work to do something remarkable: inform and empower our readers with real, rigorous, in-depth journalism. The work matters. What also ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...