Good faith and fair dealing—adherence to what we might call “norms”—is essential to the functioning of American government.

Re “How to Teach Students About a Politicized Supreme Court,” by Jesse Wegman (Opinion, March 3): Mr. Wegman asserts that teaching constitutional law has relied on the belief that the Supreme Court is ...

The Center for Constitutional Law’s executive director, Rick Trachok, a University alumnus and longtime leader in Nevada’s ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

Justice Antonin Scalia made great strides in bringing the Constitution’s original meaning back to the fore. Today, it is not novel to start with the text of a statute or the Constitution, but it was ...

Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned ...

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America. Ponnuru might be right about conservatives’ rhetorical success, ...

In early July 1985, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese launched a legal revolution from the tony confines of the Sheraton Washington Hotel. Speaking to the American Bar Association, he argued that “far ...

May 30 and 31, 2025 CLC workshop: Reclaiming Constitutional Law: Limiting Executive Power Overreach, Expanding Shields. This is the second of a three-part series on Teaching Constitutional Law in a ...

The U.S. Constitution is our supreme law of America. Amendments are part of the Constitution. The first 10 amendments, or Bill of Rights, were submitted to the state legislatures in September 1789.

Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Associate Justice Elena ...