The U.S. Constitution is our supreme law. The first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were ratified in December 1791. Amendments are part of the Constitution. As the former attorney general of ...

This term, Supreme Court watchers are paying close attention to “Masterpiece Cakeshop”—the gay wedding cake case--which could be a landmark in First Amendment jurisprudence. But there’s another case, ...

The Tenth Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” This ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch had quite the reaction when an attorney cited the amendment as an example of when Congress may pass a "duplicative" provision that doesn't do much in changing the law. The ...

The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” This ...

The Bill of Rights has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at how they relate to society ...

Nowadays American insurrections are announced not by thundering cannon, as in Charleston harbor 134 years ago, but by the soft rustle of legal briefs. One such, from Sacramento, announces a renewed ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...