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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

In fact, when asked if the clause would “have the effect of naturalizing the children ... of Mongolian parents shall be declared by the Constitution of the United States to be entitled to ...