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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fourth annual Ubbelohde Lecture will be held Sept. 22 with Linda Colley, the Shelby MC Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Colley will discuss “Britain, the Written ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republic Day marks the adoption of India’s Constitution, but behind its iconic pages lies a forgotten story. While Dr. B. R. Ambedkar shaped its ideas, master calligrapher Prem Behari Narain Raizada ...