Some rejected originalism in principle, as undemocratic (though it is clear that the Constitution was built upon republican rather than democratic principles), unfairly binding the present to the ...

attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States”; (3) the taking of a formal oath to support the ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...

Earlier articles in this series have discussed the sections of the Constitution that formed the Congress and the executive. The Colonies had always had their own courts that dealt with their own ...

Thus far, 38 states have ratified the amendment, meeting the constitutional threshold (three-quarters) for it to be enshrined in the Constitution. So why isn't the Equal Rights Amendment included ...

The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia. The universal principles of freedom ... under license ...