An appreciation of the Preamble begins with a comparison of it to its counterpart in the compact the Constitution replaced, the Articles of Confederation. There, the states joined in “a firm ...

The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing constitution. Instead, the delegates proposed an entirely different system of ...

Borrowed from our first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the foreign-emoluments clause has two purposes. First is the preservation of republican simplicity. Titles of nobility ...

shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all ...

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Articles of ...

With the coming presidential election and all the civil and criminal court cases in the news, we are hearing a great deal about our Constitution. I wonder how many of us really understand the ...

In addition to the Constitution, Brunk Auctions will also offer several other notable historical items. These include a first draft of the 1776 Articles of Confederation and a 1788 journal from ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was ...

The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made.