Historian Jon Meacham, on this week's broadcast of "Firing Line," told host Margaret Hoover that he has not been proven wrong ...

As local governments in Maryland clash with the Trump administration’s plans for new federal immigration facilities, the issue is reviving a long-running constitutional question: When the federal ...

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at ...

What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people. Call it what it is: political gaslighting—the regime says one thing ...

Debates on the extent of government authority and the power of the United States Constitution have become commonplace in recent months. The term “constitutional crisis” is used to describe a situation ...

This has all the makings of a constitutional crisis. According to law professor Amanda Frost, “a constitutional crisis occurs when one branch of government, usually the executive, ‘blatantly, ...

The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king. It is, instead, a grant of authority from the sovereign people to establish a republican form of government — a representative democracy of limited ...

The idea that the United States awaits some dread constitutional crisis has become commonplace. For lawyers, such a crisis would likely involve Donald Trump’s administration defying the Supreme Court ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

The American Constitution was born in crisis and is regularly tested in crisis. The American system of government is based on the idea that the executive, legislative and judicial branches, plus the ...