Our Constitution and amendments are ... Entire books and treatises have been written about the Fifth Amendment, which also applies to the states pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment.

The protections of due process are guaranteed to all persons, not only citizens, in the United States,” writes the Salt Lake ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...

Most provisions of the Bill of Rights were requested in some form as the states ratified the original Constitution ... be difficult to discern. The Fifth Amendment’s protections are triggered ...

Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. By Jnne first of this year, over 100 university teachers had declined to answer questions posed by three Congressional committees on ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment ... promises that all persons in the United States shall enjoy the “equal protection ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics ... of the office of president. The amendment was ratified by the states on February 10, 1967.

CNN spoke with several experts in immigration law to better understand what rights immigrants do and don’t have and what ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...