When James Madison was in his study in his Montpelier home, working out his ideas for the government that he would present to the Constitutional Convention this week (May 29) in 1787, he realized the ...

The Nevada Supreme Court has a history of massaging the law to protect the state’s political elites — allowing lawmakers to ignore the two-thirds requirement for tax hikes, neutering term limits and ...

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden. The chief instrument of ...