Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, ...

New Mexico made history last month. The Bernalillo County Commission debated and approved the resolution titled, “Defending our U.S. Constitution and Separation of Powers.” I was there as the first ...

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 ...

Trump v. Slaughter, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in December, likely will put an end to the era of independent federal regulatory agencies. Even if the court does not formally overrule the ...

In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital to the preservation of liberty. Instead, the court seems to have been ...

Constitutional separation of power issues have been central to the dispute over State Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s attempt to audit the Legislature, but now the auditor is the one raising concerns about ...

President Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the authority to impose tariffs is nowhere to be found in Article II of the Constitution, which is where the limited ...

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump and his ...

Montesquieu’s separation of powers assumed authority would be exercised through visible institutions. The AI era shifts this. Power operates through invisible infrastructure: Terms-of-service ...

What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who ...

The lack of political resistance to Trump’s unilateral move against Iranian targets underscores the weakness of the Constitution’s checks and balances concerning war. Founded in 1969, the Washington ...