This opinion column was submitted by W. West Allen, national president of the Federal Bar Association and the first Nevada attorney to head a national bar association. The U.S. Constitution is the ...

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The U.S. Constitution is based on securing individual rights and dividing government power. President Donald Trump has challenged the separation of powers through his executive actions. Emerging ...

Yesterday the Obama administration announced it will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).The administration said the 15 year old federal law banning the ...

Chief Justice John Marshall’s landmark opinion for the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) articulated foundational principles that have shaped American constitutional law to this day. In ...

If there were a party organized on really constitutional and conservative principles, resolved to bring the government back to the principles and policy of Washington and Adams, – a party for the ...

Like an individual mixed up about his convictions, a nation perplexed about its principles is prone to self-inflicted wounds. Both are likely to wander aimlessly and choose friends poorly while ...