The Declaration of Independence has some notes about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” its existing government ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant part to keep partisan passions at bay, constitutional drift fuels partisan ...

What the Olive Branch Petition suggests about the founders — and Americans today.

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

We may criticize or appeal court rulings we don't agree with. But we cannot defy the rulings of duly constituted courts and ...

A divided Iowa Supreme Court last week upheld two laws restricting firearm access, one related to domestic violence ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

A divided Iowa Supreme Court upheld two laws restricting firearm access, one related to domestic violence protective orders ...