The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Ben Sheehan explains how, and how often, Americans have changed their Constitution. How do we change the U.S. Constitution? We’ve done it 27 times – is that too many or too few? Ben Sheehan explains ...

It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to notice that something was missing on the Library of Congress website that annotates the U.S. Constitution. Some people mistakenly said President Donald ...

How much do you really know — or truly understand — about the Supreme Law of the Land? The 13th Annual A Conversation with the Constitution event will bring San Antonio students and community members ...

The U.S. is losing its commitment to due process and the rule of law. Due process, rooted in the Magna Carta and codified in the U.S. Constitution, protects citizens from unlawful deprivation of life, ...

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.

In my nearly three decades of teaching introductory U.S. Government to undergraduates at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, I often used a story about an international conference of academic ...

Citizenship rules are constitutional and may be altered only by an amendment. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- ...

The U.S. Constitution, legal experts and decades of court decisions agree: Immigrants in the U.S., regardless of how they entered the U.S., legally or illegally, have due process rights. The due ...