I started carrying around a pocket version of the U.S. Constitution in my purse in 1998 after I visited South Africa for the first time. It was only four years after the first full democratic election ...

The House of Representatives' reading of the Constitution on the House floor last week caused some cynics a bit of indigestion and opened Republicans up to allegations that they were more interested ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2011— -- Members of the House of Representatives today read the Constitution on the floor of the House chamber, marking a first for Congress. While lawmakers read the amended ...

In the 1980s, after two decades of judicial activism, Antonin Scalia and a small band of brothers made the case for “originalism” and “textualism”—for interpreting the Constitution according to its ...

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 ...

Constitution Day is Sept. 17, and I think we should make a bigger deal about it. On that day in 1787, 39 white men signed a document whose first words declare, "We the People." No founding document ...

Today is Constitution Day, a federally observed day to recognize the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. On Sept. 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document on which the ...

I had intended to blog last week about the Republicans setting aside time last Thursday morning to read the U.S. Constitution out loud on the House floor. I typed up a first paragraph but then the ...