The Constitution is often invoked as a safeguard for American democracy, but does it more often get in democracy’s way?

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 ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute ...

A conversation with the legal scholar on why its unusual the Constitution is core to American national identity and his new book The Constitutional Bind.

The U.S. Constitution was signed way back on September 17, 1787. That's more than 230 years of history packed into a document ...

Burns idolized FDR, and he sharply criticized the U.S. Constitution, whose “Madisonian” checks and balances blocked the progressive policies that he believed the American people wanted.

So I think the most significant failures in our politics are failures of constitutional practice, and that a more functional and cohesive political culture requires us to return to the logic of the ...

Flag burning serves as symbolic outrage staged as political cover, a culture-war diversion to distract from more serious ...

The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.

The primary reason the United States has not yet gone the way of Europe — though there are troubling parallels — is that our country has long maintained a political culture grounded on certain ...

President Trump has undermined the constitutional order to a degree unprecedented in modern U.S. history, which prompts the editors of this review to register this unprecedented warning.

Survey Report At a time of growing stress on democracy around the world, Americans generally agree on democratic ideals and values that are important for the United States. But for the most part, they ...