In this election year, Democrats have argued, often and at length, that America is in danger of losing its democratic form of government. The Republican presidential candidate has virtually ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

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, ...

Q. Is slavery in the U.S. Constitution? A. The U.S. Constitution does not use the term slavery but the existence of slavery in the United States did influence the compromises and agreements that were ...

“Our Fathers in forming the Federal Constitution entered into a guilty compromise on the subject of Slavery, and heavily is that sin now visited upon their children.” The bracing opening line of ...

The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.