New analysis compares today's political upheaval to the French Revolution, exploring how American and French revolutions took ...

Constitutional scholar and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar is on a professional crusade to encourage Americans to ...

Constitution Day is September 17. In his Constitution Day Conversation with Fulcrum Contributor Rick LaRue, leading constitutional scholar and advisor Richard Albert places the document in a ...

Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. Jill Lepore is a historian at Harvard ...

Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Harvard University offers a free online course called "American Government: Constitutional Foundations" via its edX program. The course is free not just to U.S. citizens but to anyone in the world. A ...