The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king ...

The very opening words of the Constitution, “We the People of the United States,” presume the language of the Declaration of Independence, in which the “unanimous declaration of the thirteen ...

All originalists begin with the text of the Constitution, the words of a particular clause. In the search for the meaning of the text and its legal effect, originalist researchers variously look ...

Reich (2005). Federalism is one of the most important and innovative concepts in the U.S. Constitution, although the word never appears there.

Of particular significance are the connotations conjured in the minds of Kenyans when the word constitution is uttered. Evidently, through the agonising battles fought in the name of ...