Botswana is presently at a turning point, gifted with a new government and a real opportunity to witness seismic change after ...

The U.S. Constitution is the document that defines and protects our freedoms. It is intended to limit the federal government. Today, I see intense and growing movement by groups in our nation to allow ...

On September 17, AEI’s Yuval Levin, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, gave the 13th annual Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture. In his address, Dr. Levin explained how the ...

Five decades ago, originalism wasn’t even an -ism. In the academy, at the bar, and on the courts, the Constitution was interpreted as a living, breathing document. Contemporary values mattered more ...

Richard Clark has seen first-hand what the study of the Constitution of the United States can do for young people. Clark, who has taught the U.S. Constitution as well as United States Government and U ...

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It may come as a surprise in these polarized times to learn that most Americans – on both the left and the right – agree that our system of separation of powers is laudable. Celebrated, in fact. We ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism ...

We have just marked—indeed, celebrated—the promulgation of the constitution on August 27, 2010. However, it seems that some things about the constitution are not well understood. I am not here ...