The U.S. Senate and the nation's history might different if the Constitutional Convention had structured the chamber ...

Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments. Legislatures write laws; constitutional conventions write constitutions ...

In a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court case which held that a West Virginia School Board could not compel objecting students to recite ...

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.

Letter writers discuss City Council election system, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project and rising utility bills.

The decision emerged from a lawsuit brought by the Virginia NAACP along with parents and students who said the board's May ...

PBS doc series “Independent Lens” returns for a new season on Oct. 6 with  Bill Haney's “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and ...

Ideas have consequences. A large part of the success of the American enterprise is the philosophical ideas on which it is ...

About a third of the parking lot of the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua spills over into Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. It’s a ...

"By reinstating the name 'Stonewall Jackson High School' and thereby compelling students to advance the School Board's chosen ...