"Americans need to stop voting strictly by party lines and begin voting for what is best for the country as a whole."

When a president calls out the National Guard to restore order in American cities, passions rise quickly. Some applaud the decisive action, seeing it as a president’s duty to protect the public from crime,

When I heard President Ronald Reagan utter the words above, my heart leapt with joy. I couldn’t imagine a modern-day president recognizing the sovereignty of the states and understanding their role in the creation of the American republic. If I had been ...

As part of a special issue this November, The Atlantic tasked writers and historians with looking at the country’s founding era to find out what America’s political thinkers valued at its beginning.The goal is to remind people in the U.

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from taking effect until after the next election. The most recent substantive amendment, the 26th, (1971) lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18.

What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Framers? What if our once revered Bill of Rights has become a bill of temporary privileges?

But since the country’s founding, constitutional meaning has never emerged solely from an elite cadre of justices. Nor has judicial supremacy — what some call “juristocracy”— ever been the reality on the ground. When enough people have organized around a constitutional vision, they have managed to prevail even against a hostile Supreme Court.

Every American should read the U.S. Constitution, especially the articles describing the powers of the president, Congress and the Supreme Court. For example Article II Section 1 of the Constitution requires that in order to be president,

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years after the Revolutionary War. In addition to ...

The U.S. has never been a ‘Christian republic,’ but it’s wrong to minimize Judeo-Christian influence in our history.