Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Constitution. Debate over the British government's controversial Rwanda bill has once again raised the question of whether a ...

Chilean voters headed to the polls on Sunday and rejected a proposed constitution written by conservatives to replace the country’s current Pinochet-era set of laws, created when Gen. Augusto Pinochet ...

June 24 — Open letter to Sen. Susan Collins: Today’s ruling is very disturbing however predictable as women living in the United States will no longer be able to choose their destiny or take ownership ...

For over 230 years, the Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States. Before the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation was the ruling document. But it had its problems, ...

Politico Magazine recently published a guide to etiquette for life in the District of Columbia. One of the rules went well beyond simple etiquette, highlighting a provision of America’s unwritten ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

At present, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in force and, at the same time, one of the most difficult to amend or improve. There have only been 27 amendments since the ...

For 80-year-old Hilistis Pauline Waterfall, seeing the Heiltsuk Nation adopt a written constitution would be a "dream come ...

A republican form of government is based on checks and balances created by the separation of powers. American students are taught this as a good thing. Tyranny is kept at bay by the American system of ...

We have a holiday, parades and light fireworks to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But the Constitution? The legal pact we all love and argue about and, in some cases, die to ...