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Conservatives are, by and large, thrilled by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. It has expanded its conception of gun rights that states have to respect, and ruled that states have to include ...

I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...

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.

John Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana. He was first sworn into office in 2012 and served until 2016. Unlike some of ...

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of ...

The Constitution has been the glue holding the United States government together for more than 200 years. Al Aiken and other members of the Virginia Liberty Project believe that understanding the ...

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His ...