With partisan advantage, clashing perceptions of reality and revolutionary readings of the Constitution all in play, the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

Limit the president’s pardoning power. Trump has abused pardons to exempt friends and allies from punishment for illegality, ...

The U.S. Constitution is one of our nation’s most important documents, laying the foundation for the greatest democratic experiment in history — putting power in the hands of the American people.

Pulitzer finalist and author Rogers Smith said the 14th Amendment could be the uniting factor for a polarized country Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

The American Bar Association (ABA) has waded into a politically charged dispute over Justice Department independence, releasing a statement condemning the use of government power to threaten ...

The genius of the American republic lies in part in the close relationship between its two founding documents.

On a muggy September day, dozens of people on very different sides of the political aisle crowded into a room and finally ...

Northeast Ohio readers had a lot to say about the military under President Donald Trump after he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the nation’s top officers. We asked: What do you think of ...

Two assassination attempts on President Trump. The assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the wounding of others. The shooting death of a top healthcare executive. The killing ...

Gina Iacobucci’s We the People class at New Palestine High School is for older students who want to learn about the ...