“We the People of the United States. …” These memorable words start the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which was signed 238 years ago by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Courts serve as a critical safeguard for constitutional rights against political and special interests. An independent judiciary, free from outside influence, is foundational to the U.S. legal system.

The U. S. Constitution is the world’s longest-surviving written constitution. However, some have expressed frustration with our government’s fundamental rule book. Some have even suggested the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution in an ...

The framers of the U.S. Constitution famously divided power among three branches of government so that, as James Madison explained in Federalist 51, the "constituent parts may, by their mutual ...

“We the People of the United States …” These memorable words start the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which was signed 238 years ago by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.