The way United States Constitution of 1789 speaks about money has long puzzled observers. ... That’s 27 words, some of them offbeat or capitalized like in German, ...

The U.S. Constitution is famously short—a mere 7,591 words, including its 27 amendments. That makes it all the more remarkable that 110 of those words have been, in effect, lost to the ages.

The 42nd Amendment introduced the word ‘secular’ in the Preamble. But secularism is inherent in the Constitution, a theme ...

Hosabale's demand is not about semantics. It is about reshaping the state. It is about shifting India from a secular republic ...

Sept. 17 is the Constitution’s birthday. Sadly, most people don’t know — or care.We all know: Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo, May 5 — a weeklong party (marking a day of ...

What’s more, going beyond the text is practically demanded by the Ninth Amendment, which explicitly acknowledges that there are specific, inviolable rights not named in the Constitution: “The ...

Interestingly, however, "The Words That Made Us" begins with a now obscure Boston attorney, James Otis Jr., arguing, in 1761, that an equally obscure search and seizure case about British "writs ...

THE WORDS THAT MADE US America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 By Akhil Reed Amar. When I was part of a legal team trying to establish that Alabama children in poor school districts had ...

We hope the Gencral Assembly of the State of Ohio will submit an amendment to the Constitution, similar In its terms to that proposed by our Democratic friend, Mr. BALL, of Muskingum, in the House ...