Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Voters are scheduled to decide on March 29 whether to revise the tax section of the state constitution. But is the ballot ...

Because the Constitution expressly empowers Congress to levy these taxes, it must also permit some of the nonuniform effects that inevitably accompany them. The principal challenge in interpreting ...

The Constitution does not mention political parties ... George Washington specifically warned against “the baneful effects of the spirit of party” in his farewell address in 1796.

The only limits mentioned in the Constitution are that pardons are ... A pardon, however, completely wipes out the legal effects of a conviction. A pardon can be issued from the time an offense ...

Frederick Douglass, who argued that the Constitution did not sanction slavery ... change neither the intent of his entourage nor the effects of his policies. A successful repeal of birthright ...