Politico Magazine recently published a guide to etiquette for life in the District of Columbia. One of the rules went well beyond simple etiquette, highlighting a provision of America’s unwritten ...

During oral argument at the Supreme Court in December over Mississippi’s abortion ban, Justice Sonia Sotomayor laid bare a fundamental truth: “There’s so much that’s not in the Constitution.” Her ...

Christopher Columbus Is Wrongly Reviled — but Not for the Reason You Think Audio By Carbonatix American freedom, as Tocqueville understood, requires practically loving your neighbors so that the ...

Playing to type, Harvard and Yale law professors have taken to the pages of The New York Times to say that we should trash the Constitution. Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn (of Harvard and Yale, ...

Page one of the original copy of the Constitution of the United States. Image from Wikimedia commons. Dunedin lawyer Joss Miller argues the sovereignty of Parliament would be largely usurped by the ...

What have people said about the Baby Ninths since they were first adopted in 1819? Delegates thought they protected unenumerated rights. But judges have mostly failed to put them into action. In this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Constitution. Debate over the British government's controversial Rwanda bill has once again raised the question of whether a ...

The greatest chronicler of the British state, Lord Hennessy, warns of the need to bolster constitutional defences against a future authoritarian government It is early 2011, a few months after I had ...

America has an unwritten constitution. It’s not well-known, but it is powerful. It governs even the written constitution which we know so well. Where has such a constitution been hiding? In plain ...

“Being a free American requires practically loving your neighbors so that the government doesn’t have to love them for you.” That’s the conclusion of a fascinating essay by Cameron Hilditch entitled ...