Voters in 24 states and the District of Columbia can bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to get proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot. But about 40 bills in roughly a ...

As a current Maine teacher of American history and government, every year my students and I discuss our amazing Constitution ...

Eliminate the cap? Use some of the excess to fund specific programs and services? Try to invalidate the 1992 constitutional ...

Roman Catholic bishops from the state of Washington have filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that forces them to violate ...

Instead, new institutions must be created where old ones have failed to protect public interest, they said at the event, titled "Bangladesh's Democratic Transition and Institutional Decay: What Lies ...

Greece’s Grand Plenary of the Council of State ruled by majority the right of adoption for married same-sex couples as their ...

A traffic stop in Wichita leads to a divided Kansas Supreme Court decision on constitutionality of certain searches and ...

NPR and several public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over an executive order cutting federal funding, ...

PBS alleges that the president’s May 1 order violated the First Amendment of the Constitution and the Administrative ...

Why is the United States Constitution the world’s longest surviving written charter of government in the world? Could it be because of the three branches of government, mapped out in Articles, I, II ...

Why is the United States Constitution the world’s longest surviving written charter of government in the world? Could it be ...

The Texas House on Monday advanced a sweeping package to crack down on bail laws, setting a longtime priority of Gov. Greg ...