Hopeful is right. I’m not an optimist, but I’m hopeful that the Constitution can still work for us because I think the Constitution was intended to address exactly the kinds of problems we face now.

How the Constitution will be interpreted by a right-wing Supreme Court, and whether its long-accepted rules for the wielding ...

America’s decentralized system continues to frustrate progressive ambitions.

The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism ...

In honor of the anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, AEI’s Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies division marked Constitution Day with a lecture by Yuval ...

Because we Americans have forgotten how to disagree with one another, forgotten how to collaborate and compromise, Yuval Levin contends, in clear and persuasive prose, that the United States ...

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

The oldest constitution in the world is also the oldest uncodified (not written law) document. The US Constitution is technically the oldest in the world. Almost all of these documents are living ...

I recently made a pilgrimage to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see the United States Constitution — the one that George Washington and 38 other Founders signed with a goose quill 238 ...

The following is a foreword from the forthcoming book "The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals." Commentators sometimes note that there are two types of countries. One type remains ...