EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - This Constitution Day, students learned about James Madison’s influence on American constitutional design. The event titled, “A More Perfect Union?: Constitution Day ...

A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. My most recent column considered the challenges involved in determining the legal rules ...

Arizona Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has set a modern-day record for the 43-day wait to be sworn into Congress after winning a ...

James Madison, the father of the Constitution and one of Virginia’s finest statesmen, wrote in Federalist No. 51: ‘If men ...

If readers take away only one lesson regarding trade and tariffs, make it the following: James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, believed that the Constitution existed primarily for the ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

That's a famous line in Federalist No. 51, generally attributed to James Madison—but not quite. The line is actually, in context, But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives several compelling reasons for abolishing the Education Department (“It’s Past Time to Abolish the U.S. Department of Education,” op-ed, March 19). He neglects, however ...