The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was initially adopted is 1791 and simply states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ...

Among the restructuring and chaos occurring in Washington after the commencement of the Trump Administration, the National ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...

Article I of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to manage the federal budget to determine funding decisions to balance power between the branches of government. However, the act ...

The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

The SAVE Act aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of US citizenship for voting ...

A power struggle concerning government spending is heating up in Washington, D.C., igniting what some Senate Democrats call a "constitutional crisis" amid ... the Impoundment Control Act. The 1974 law ...

President Trump and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown would bypass the Fourteenth Amendment and the constitutional principle ...

The bill allows individuals who are legally permitted to carry concealed firearms in their home states to do so in other states that either: Allow residents to obtain licenses or permits for ...