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Feb 7, 2012 · The United States Constitution was once a model for charters around the world, but its influence is waning, according to a new study.
Aug 3, 2024 · The Constitution is meant to limit what the government can do, the kind of check we were talking about before, and the limits of the Constitution only have meaning if they’re enforced,...
- Sean Illing
Sep 15, 2021 · On September 17, 1787, delegates at the Philadelphia Convention signed what became the U.S. Constitution, replacing the previous organizing document, the Articles of Confederation, which many had come to see as too weak and inadequate for the nascent nation.
It has been suggested, with growing frequency, that the United States may be losing its influence over constitutionalism in other countries because it is increasingly out of sync with an evolving global consensus on issues of human rights.
Sep 12, 2023 · And authoritarian rule was consolidated via constitutional hardball, as Southern legislatures violated the 15th Amendment by using poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures to strip African Americans’ right to vote for more than 70 years.
Nov 14, 2022 · We asked five scholars to isolate the problem they’d attack first. Sanford Levinson is a professor at the University of Texas Law School and currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. We have a radically defective Constitution in many different respects.
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Jan 8, 2021 · When the Articles of Confederation failed, the framers started over with a new constitution. Something similar is needed today, although at the moment, the prospect of drafting a new constitution is wildly implausible. It’s past time, however, to consider the cost of inaction.
