Sept. 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, meant to celebrate the signing of the United States' founding document and all those who have become citizens since. Here's a quick history lesson and ...

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Rana argues, constitutional politics has shape-shifted into a kind of idolatry. As late as the first decades of the twentieth century, Rana proposes, ...

How did Americans come to worship the Constitution? The Constitution is often invoked as a safeguard for American democracy, but does it more often get in democracy’s way? The Supreme Court has taken ...