There has been much talk of late about the institution of American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. This discussion has focused largely on the formal legal basis for democratic institutions ...

Letters to the editor reflect the views of individual readers. Today’s issue: Rule by the people vs. Trump's exercise of ...

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

Every American who is concerned about the state of our liberties ought to find harrowing President Donald Trump's recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, has published nine books on the U.S. Constitution. To learn ...

But since the country’s founding, constitutional meaning has never emerged solely from an elite cadre of justices. Nor has ...

On June 17, AEI’s J. Joel Alicea, Yuval Levin, Gary J. Schmitt, and Adam J. White hosted a symposium examining the American Revolution’s role in shaping American constitutionalism. The first panel ...