US constitution

On June 16, law students and professors from the University of Denver will visit the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples to examine the letters exchanged between the Neapolitan Enlightenment philosopher Gaetano Filangieri and the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin....

The sacrosanct adherence to the Second Amendment is almost totally based on ignorance about the Bill of Rights, and the NRA exploits this ignorance to justify their self-interested agenda.

Moral baseness reached even greater depths when those like McConnell and Haley, who metaphorically had crawled in the mud almost to the finish line, did a complete turnaround when it became politically expedient to abandon the “leader” they had formerly...

We’ve known for a long time that our nation is, and has been, divided in two camps. One that protects its liberal democratic republic, and the other, at various times denominated “All-American,” “extreme right conservative” and even “White supremacist,” that...

The shocking sights that the world was subjected to on January 6, 2021, as Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. should not have taken any careful observer of the Trump presidency by surprise. It was the day some...

Trump has stated, “I would raise a billion dollars in one day, if I wanted to...So I call the head of Exxon... Hi, how are you doing? How's energy coming? Oh, you need a couple of permits, huh? Okay." Is...

Contrary to what the Founding Fathers intended, the constitutional principle of “checks and balances” is eroded. Congress is sidelined and paralyzed by strife. Justice is increasingly politicized. The Executive, meanwhile, is growing more and more assertive and authoritarian. Is this...

There are many reasons why I’m ready for “Uncle Joe” to be my president. I’m sick and tired of waking up in fear of what outrageous thing Donald Trump is doing today to undermine the constitution and the rule of...

The original intent when the framers of the Constitution adopted what was acknowledged to be the monarchical power of the pardon was not to favor an individual, but to restore tranquility to the country after times of strife; for example,...