St. John claims the zoning decision placed a “substantial burden” on its First Amendment free exercise rights, citing a ...

Prince Hall was a free African American living in Boston. He began a petition campaign to end slavery in 1773. But after 1776, he had new authority to draw on—the power of the Declaration of ...

The Supreme Court has announced which cases and controversies it will consider during arguments from October to December 2026 ...

Pennsylvania became a place where people of different faiths sought to live together under laws that protected religious freedom while cultivating civic life. Yet that experiment was also marked by ...

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as chair of the United ...

On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will begin its new term with one of the biggest cases on its docket.

The National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library includes primary texts that span American history—from the philosophical works that influenced the Founding generation to the most important ...

One of the most heated constitutional debates in early America involved Congress’s power to establish a national bank. Bank supporters like Alexander Hamilton argued that a national bank was essential ...

The United States Constitution has become the primary text of America’s civil religion. As a nation lacking a common religion, “We the People” have come to worship our Constitution as the scripture ...

“[H]istory showed that the way tyrants had eliminated a militia consisting of all the able-bodied men was not by banning the militia but simply by taking away the people’s arms, enabling a select ...

In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the federal Sedition Act, which criminalized the publication of any “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and ...