Via Open To Debate-- Originalism is a way of interpreting the Constitution. In the past, the legal theory referred to framer’s intent, but the contemporary, prevailing view of originalism is that it ...

There has been some originalist debate of late about the proper reading of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The fate of the Trump administration's executive order excluding new ...

NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.

This is the 11th in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. A historian could tell a significant portion of English and American Colonial history using the Bill of Rights as a guide. A defense ...

Some eighty years ago, then professor and later Judge Jerome Frank purported to expose what he termed “the basic legal myth”–to wit, that judges decide cases by applying legal rules to the facts ...

Before his vote to acquit the president in the impeachment trial, Senator Lamar Alexander suggested that, while holding military aid to Ukraine was improper, the Framers of the Constitution would not ...

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