When Americans today think of the Constitution, many of us think of certain cherished freedoms we hold dear: freedom of ...

which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...

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 ...

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...

James Madison earned the nickname the “Father of the Constitution” because he drafted significant pieces of the document. Madison’s most famous work was the Bill of Rights, ratified on ...

who are entrusted with upholding and protecting the Constitution, doesn’t appear to be much better. It was ten years ago on December 15, National Bill of Rights Day, that the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Recent amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act (憲法訴訟法) have the potential to do the most damage to the ...

"This exercise was to provide Gambians with the constitutional framework to enjoy their rights as ... to a vote for the bill to proceed to the third stage. The draft constitution was thrown ...