NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.

All republican governments live in fear of the man on the white horse. A republican government, like ours, is a system of rules designed to prevent any one person or faction from hijacking the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently discovered that if you walk around New York City while carrying an 18 th-century musket, you get a lot of questions.

One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer Supported by By Jennifer Szalai The United States Constitution is ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. The following is lightly adapted from the author’s new book, The Year of Living ...

Donald Trump yesterday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly broke that oath by seeking to revoke the first sentence of the 14th ...