As the Trump administration tests the limits of presidential power, here's a look at what the U.S. Constitution says.

Constitutional rights of undocumented immigrants include the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protections ...

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

Madison had wanted the amendments that became the Bill of Rights to be interwoven into the relevant sections of the Constitution. More for stylistic rather than substantive reasons, though ...

Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

President Trump has repeatedly questioned the constitutional right to due process. His attacks come as the courts warn that ...

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...

which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...

Stated less lawyerly, that means “Leave the Constitution alone ... a proposal about abortion rights. The U.S. Supreme Court wiped out the 1973 Roe v. Wade precedent, which made abortion ...

AUGUSTA, Maine - At the state house on Tuesday, lawmakers gathered in the judiciary committee for a pubic hearing on LD 260, “Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Establish ...

The U.S. Constitution enshrines rights to Americans and imposes restrictions on government officials that regulate the president's power, as laid out in the Bill of Rights and other constitutional ...