Constitution

The current disconnect between the Democratic Congressional leadership and the party base over amendments to FISA can be best summarized numerically since,like pictures, numbers too can speak a thousand words.

Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.

Let me tell you a story about 56 men who risked everything -- their fortunes and their lives -- to take a stand for truth.

If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

Obama is standing up to the religious right, saying that when making the laws that govern our nation, we don't turn to the Bible. We base our laws on the only sacred text all Americans worship: The U.S. Constitution.

Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.

In the interest of saving America from bin Laden, we have shown a terrifying willingness to strip away more and more of the founding virtues that make America worth saving in the first place.

We are supposed to be a nation of respect for our constitutional framework. Just as we should not abandon our disdain for torture, we should not abandon the constitutional right to habeas corpus.

On the first day of Congress, members swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States ... against all enemies foreign and domestic." Not the President, not a political party -- the Constitution.

The Obama candidacy is not about an individual, but about reasserting the distinction of a nation, membership in which is not hereditary but elective.

By Doug Kendall and Elizabeth Wydra Conservatives love to decry result-oriented judging--except when they don't like the results compelled by the law...

So what would happen if the Electoral College tied? Well, it goes to the House of Representatives. And since the Democrats have an advantage in the House, you'd think "President Obama." But you'd be wrong.

The Democratic Party leadership is more interested in winning elections than they are in doing their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.

On Thursday, I will be at Guantánamo watching five men appear before a military commission. The men are accused of participating in the September 11 attacks, and the sentence could be death.

If the proper role of the judiciary is going to be one of "the defining issues of this presidential election," as John McCain asserted today, he shoul...

Attacking Obama while pulling the entire Democratic Party down with her is one thing, but threatening to commit nuclear holocaust on another country is another matter all together.

The distrust and distaste for government authority has even made some liberals receptive to arguments advanced by gun rights groups, who suggest that private ownership of firearms is a healthy check on government run amok.

The Republicans, if they want to bring up the Wright issue, may well find that the press sides with Obama.

Last week's debate proved something startling about this country as it was like watching Maury Povich and Dr. Phil perform a tag-team divorce in which...

The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...

Of the many important topics that got left on the cutting room floor Wednesday night as Gibson and Stephanopoulos played gotcha, perhaps the most surprising victim was the Constitution itself.

Our nation's charter -- The Constitution of the United States -- to this day contains unstricken text that established the legal framework for slavery.

A portion of our vote for the next president is a referendum on the immediate past. But try as we might to predict what could happen, we simply cannot account for the changing domestic and international issues.