As recent US Supreme Court rulings have lessened a range of federal protections, constitutional action has increased in the ...

In recent years, allegiance to the constitutional theory known as originalism has become all but mandatory for American legal conservatives. Every justice and almost every judge nominated by recent ...

Originalists and living constitutionalists have been hammering away at each other for decades. But, up until recently, most living constitutionalists at least agreed that originalism qualifies as a ...

Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question ...

When a widely acclaimed Harvard Law School professor publishes a book that another Harvard Law professor calls “the most important book of constitutional theory in many decades,” it’s certainly worth ...

Here are three of the most common criticisms of originalism made by non-originalists: (1) Originalism does not provide a determinate answer to contested questions—anything beyond, say, how many ...

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez directs entrepreneurial development programs for the Sucre municipal government in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a graduate of Carleton College and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Boom Reveals the Human Costs of Single-Payer Democrats Say They Want Affordable Housing. So Why Are They Killing It? The Democrats’ Patriotism Gap The Supreme Court Should ...

We have heard about many threats to “our democracy” in recent years. The phrase most often appears when bewailing or denouncing ideas and people that are supposed to represent these threats. And, to ...

Constitution Day offers us an opportunity to examine BR Ambedkar’s broader conception of constitutionalism, which can be traced from his writings, speeches, social movements, and public and political ...