The founding generation of American political leaders asserted that the independent nation would be based on the ideal that ...

No Bill of Attainder...shall be passed. The Constitution prohibits both the federal government (in this clause) and the states (in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) from passing either bills of ...

In a partisan vote, the House Privileges & Elections Committee advanced a bill to constitutionalize reproductive rights ...

Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins and others' efforts succeeded 10 years ago when Illinois voters decided to amend the state ...

"The Constitution isn't perfect because it wasn ... It's so easy to take for granted individual liberty, a bill of rights, the rule of law, checks and balances, getting a trial by jury, the ...

The ACLU has evolved over the years. What began as a small group of idealists taking a stand againt the government in 1920 has grown into the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U ...

In Article I, all federal laws are entrusted to the Congress, which is made up of a House of Representatives and a Senate.

We also firmly believe that the proper place for those ideals is in our city's Bill of Rights. As the Board points out, the City Charter “is essentially the city’s constitution,” and ...

In a step forward for a proposed voting rights amendment, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office last week approved the revised petition summary for the “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights.” If it gains enough ...

LÉVIS — Despite a last ditch attempt to block the project by a handful of anglophones, the Quebec Liberal Party on Saturday adopted the principle of adopting a Quebec constitution that would ...