PHOENIX (AP) — South Dakota’s constitution refers to the governor as a “he.” But for the past six years, the governor was a “she” — Kristi Noem, the first female to hold the position there. The ...

A series of events will discuss the balance between state constitutions and the U.S. Constitution beginning today at the University’s Law School. The American Constitution Society is organizing the ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Andrew Oliver is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage ...

Nearly a century ago, U.S. Spureme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis praised the tradition of federalism in his dissent in New State Ice v. Liebmann, which popularized the term “laboratory of democracy.

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - In the states of Montana, Pennsylvania and New York, state constitutions include a clause that gives citizens a right to a “clean and healthy environment.” At the ...

PHOENIX — South Dakota’s constitution refers to the governor as a “he.” But for the past six years, the governor was a “she” — Kristi Noem, the first female to hold the position there. The ...

The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to uphold. Some state constitutions provide more ...