On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Rana argues, constitutional politics has shape-shifted into a kind of idolatry. As late as the first decades of the twentieth century, Rana proposes, Americans took part in a more robust debate over the ...

It’s hard to believe, but in nine months the United States of America will observe its 250th birthday. What a privilege it will be to witness the nation’s Semiquincentennial.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ...

"We're the United States of Ameragottit" said the former president, while calling for elected officials to fight for equality.

Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices ...

The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today. By Ken Burns, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger Start with a constitutional convention. By Jill Lepore Republican state lawmakers argue that ...