Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His ...

Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

Georgia voters face a referendum in November to decide whether to restore provisions of the Georgia Constitution, as well as statutes enacted by the Legislature, that the Georgia Supreme Court struck ...

Conservative justices have long embraced textualism and stressed that laws should be interpreted based on plain meaning. The IEEPA, though, doesn’t actually mention tariffs in its text. It only ...

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For more than 30 years now, our federal courts have ground to a halt over the single dumbest debate ever thunk up by humans. Does the Constitution mean what the Constitution says? Legal mouth ...

I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...

On Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her new book, “We the People: A History of the U.S.

This is the 11th in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. A historian could tell a significant portion of English and American Colonial history using the Bill of Rights as a guide. A defense ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...