constitution

THIS DAY: On Dec. 18, 1787, New Jersey ratified the Constitution by unanimous vote, the third state to do so. The second, Pennsylvania, ratified the C...

Impeachment is the nuclear option undergirding the separation of powers framework of American government. An antique vestige borrowed from British tra...

WASHINGTON — The notion of due process has been much in the news, thanks to President Trump, whose devotion to fairness is characteristically situatio...

How the redrawing of the state's congressional map would impact the wide-reaching Fifth District is anyone’s guess. But Dr. G. Terry Madonna, director...

WASHINGTON — When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering t...

State Reps. Marty Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and Matt Gabler, R-DuBois, both supported legislation in the state House to stand up for the rights of gun ow...

WASHINGTON — When not furrowing their collective brows about creches and displays of the Ten Commandments here and there, courts often are pondering t...

After reading in The Era concerning two basketball cheerleaders not standing for our National Anthem, I feel a civil response is necessary to the comm...

Imagine a tall oak tree with its roots anchored firmly in the earth. Imagine that America is like that tree, with its roots our Constitution. Over the...

The controversy over UPB cheerleaders kneeling for the National Anthem affords us a rather disturbing view of how some Americans regard First Amendmen...

WASHINGTON — The technique has been called (by this columnist) "immunity through profusion." By keeping the molten lava of falsehoods flowing, the vol...

If President Donald Trump is a budding authoritarian, as his critics allege, one of the safeguards is Judge Neil Gorsuch. For all that Trump has flout...

WASHINGTON — With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, "If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Indep...

In his successful run to the presidency, Donald Trump spent a lot of time talking about the Second Amendment and defending gun ownership. He spent ver...

Much of the political commentary over this past week has been bleak and despairing for the future of our fragile republic. It has assumed the worst ab...