“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.

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.

The Constitution is one of the most important documents in US history. The Bill of Rights guarantees all Americans basic rights. There is no telling what America would look like without this revered ...

Remarks from NRI’s Regional Seminars. The following remarks, lightly adapted, were delivered by the author in Dallas on February 14, as part of National Review Institute’s Foundations of Freedom ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Now, all over the world, women-led social and peace movements are on the rise, while at the same time, the fight for women’s fundamental rights ...

All republican governments live in fear of the man on the white horse. A republican government, like ours, is a system of rules designed to prevent any one person or faction from hijacking the ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on his book "Reading the Constitution." Interpreting the Constitution for modern America is of course the divisive legal dilemma of the times, and retired ...