When it came time to draft a constitution for the new country, the founding fathers had not shaken off the sting of writs of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in May on Trump's bid to enforce his executive order to restrict automatic ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

In 1780, for example, the Constitution ... for violations of the Fourth Amendment remained uncertain until the introduction of the exclusionary rule in Weeks v. United States (1914) (evidence ...

Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred ... that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

The Department of Homeland Security will retrain more than 900 Border Patrol agents after controversial immigration sweeps in ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.