Your Weekly Constitutional

Only once in its history has the United States gone to war to resolve a constitutional issue. The war was the American ... Read more

That's what Alexander Hamilton once called the Articles of Confederation - imbecilic. And that's why he wanted to throw ... Read more

We like to think that we live in a "democracy," even though we know that it's actually something called a "republic." Bu... Read more

What can you do if an ex-lover posts explicit photographs of you online? Aren't there laws against such behavior?There a... Read more

Once upon a time, the idea of a woman serving on the United States Supreme Court seemed strange, perhaps unattainable. T... Read more

Every year it seems that more states legalize marijuana in one form or another. Could the national government be next? O... Read more

A friendship for the ages. One of the most important intellectual collaborations in human history. Fifty years of harm... Read more

We’ve all heard of the Jim Crow era, when African-Americans were barred from most restaurants, gas stations and hotels i... Read more

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or man... Read more

Sophia Rosenfeld is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. She's published an incisive and timely book about th... Read more

We’ve spoken with Elizabeth Dowling Taylor before, about her groundbreaking book “A Slave in the White House.”Well, Beth... Read more

Does the Supreme Court need saving? Ganesh Sitaraman thinks so. He teaches constitutional law at Vanderbilt University... Read more

Who are those guys?You've heard of them - the United States Attorneys. They sound pretty important. But who are they, ... Read more

President Obama wants to formalize the longstanding practice of the U.S. government allowing millions of undocumented al... Read more

Boston University journalism Professor Dick Lehr has written a new book about a film that is perhaps the greatest in Ame... Read more

What does baseball have to do with constitutional law? Quite a bit, it turns out.Stewart will explain it to you, along w... Read more

Ever heard of Frederick Douglass? Sure you have. But how about his contemporary and fellow ex-slave and abolitionist, ... Read more

This week Stewart visits with Cash Arehart, our friend and interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, one of the coolest plac... Read more

We haven't heard much from the Supreme Court lately on the Second Amendment. That may soon change. So the Law Review a... Read more

Nope. Not Andrew Johnson. It's a guy named William Blount, who was kicked out of the United States Senate more than tw... Read more