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As President Trump tests what "due process" means under the law, the courts say his government must take steps to ensure ...
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in ...
On Thursday, before the House members could begin reading the Constitution aloud, Democrats raised a question about which text Republicans wanted read, and asked whether it would include the three ...
Nothing in the text of the Constitution protects slavery from abolition. Even where the Constitution refers to slavery, it always refers to slaves as persons to avoid denying them their ...
Trump, months after taking the oath of office, questioned whether he had a duty to uphold the constitutional right to due ...
Classical musicians have a lot to teach interpreters of the U.S. Constitution. It’s so much more than the text.
The Constitution did not provide for any authoritative text of the Constitution in the Hindi language. The 58th Constitution Amendment Act, 1987 inserted Article 394-A in Part XXII of the ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune guest editorial makes a claim about the 12th Amendment that isn’t true to the literal text. It claims ... due to the intent of the Constitution. But the claim misleads ...
In Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism ... or “pragmatic” approach that considers not just the text itself but also its intended purpose and contends that judges who attempt ...
Jonah is quite right to say that “[t]here is nothing in the Constitution that says the speaker must be an elected member of the House.” As a matter of the simple text of Article I, considered ...