2017-01-06T12:05:33-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2ea/20170106120551001_hd.jpgHouse members read aloud the entire U.S. Constitution, the fourth such reading ...

We recognize Constitution Day — September 17 — to celebrate more than just words on parchment. The Constitution represents a turn in human history away from authoritarianism and toward individual ...

Despite its limited applications on paper, the Constitution’s commerce clause has given the federal government carte blanche ...

Improbably, the U.S. Constitution has become a runaway bestseller. The reason, of course, is Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic convention, and in particular these words posed to the Republican ...

When the new Republican majority in the House decided to kick off the legislative session by reading the Constitution, the liberal reaction was instructive. Some accused Republicans of "hijacking" a ...

The midterm elections didn’t provide the red wave Republicans had expected, but they nevertheless gained a small majority in the House of Representatives. In preparing for GOP control of the lower ...

Constitution Day is Sept. 17, and I think we should make a bigger deal about it. On that day in 1787, 39 white men signed a document whose first words declare, "We the People." No founding document ...

Life is full of ironies. The Chico E-R ran a long editorial on Sunday, 12/4, (“Constitution Reading on the House floor?”) endorsing House Republican Kevin McCarthy’s gratuitous, grandstanding pledge ...

Democrats haven’t expelled the Constitution from the floor of the House, but they have put off what had become a semiannual rite of having members convene a new Congress by reading the founding ...

As astute commentators have noted, the draft opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization not only seeks to overrule Roe vs. Wade, but might also someday threaten other decisions like ...

Remember two years ago, when the U.S. House kicked off 2011 by reading the entirety of the Constitution? As reader T.D. reminds me, the effort, spearheaded by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), is back. In ...