| 单词 | Constitution |
| 例句 | Constitution—eliminating Fourth Amendment protections once deemed inviolate—and it has militarized policing practices in inner cities across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Bill of Rights is contained in these ten changes that are now a permanent part of the Constitution. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Even when the upper grades had to make recitations of the Preamble to the Constitution. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Why, yes sir. Atticus, I don’t know anything about the Constitution. “You seem to be constitutionally sound so far. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Madison’s prudent and silent intervention rescued Jefferson from the secessionist implications of his revolutionary principles and artfully concealed the huge discrepancy between their respective views of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union “guaranteed” a multitude of rights it didn’t always deliver on, and a line on paper didn’t suddenly make everyone’s ideas shift from their old tracks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But a small group known as the Hollywood Ten refused to answer questions, citing the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which grants citizens the freedom of speech and association. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We know it today as the US Constitution. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And with that the lesson about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of the press was over. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The parents were too American, too aware of the rights granted them by their Constitution to accept injustices meekly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Barred from Constitution Hall, she would give a free open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z What amendment would you make to the Constitution if you were President of the United States? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Defenders of the Constitution, then and now, have saluted it as a sensible accommodation of liberty to power and a realistic compromise with the requirements of a national domain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z What officer is designated by the Constitution to be president of the Senate of the United States? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At first they thought of staging the concert in the small public park directly across the street from Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z While the disposal is running, I try to detour my mind—recite the Constitution, list the presidents in order, remember the names of the seven dwarfs—I can’t stop thinking that she called me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The Continental Congress wrote the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, two years before the Constitution was ratified. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I could say the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her participation in the event was the artistic high point of the evening and an unspoken rebuke to the snobbery and prejudice that had excluded her from Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z All his major published works on political philosophy, including his Defence of the Constitution of the United States of America and Discourses on Davila, along with his unpublished autobiography, lacked coherent form. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In addition, the Constitution’s emphasis on protecting private property runs contrary to Haudenosaunee traditions of communal ownership. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I doubt that trying to amend the Constitution would actually succeed, but it may be valuable to aspire to it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Northern white elites were sympathetic to the demand for their “property rights” to be respected, as they, too, wanted the Constitution to protect their property interests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Constitution contained no provision that committed the newly created federal government to a policy of gradual emancipation, or in any clear sense placed slavery on the road to ultimate extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The woman sitting next to her shakes her head, says, “How in the world is Truman going to say he upholds the Constitution when he won’t pass legislation to end lynching?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Private security doesn’t need to uphold an oath to the Constitution. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Garfield also pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery, a change in the Constitution favored by Lincoln and the Republican Party. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Shortly before his death, Justice Thurgood Marshall felt compelled to remind his colleagues that there is, in fact, “no drug exception” written into the text of the Constitution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Lacking a consensus on what the American Revolution had intended and what the Constitution had settled, Federalists and Republicans alike were afloat in a sea of mutual accusations and partisan interpretations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Constitution Hall was not available for a concert by Marian Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Write the preamble of the Constitution of the United States. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z One of the few local documents to survive from this time, the so-called Constitution of Cyrene, prescribes the kind of political machinery one might expect in a wholly independent polis. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The Constitution had provided for Congress to identify a “seat of government” not to exceed one hundred square miles in size to be purchased from the proximate states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The point here was that the Declaration of Independence contained the phrase “all men are created equal, ” whereas the American Constitution itself, albeit in weasel words, expressly allowed slavery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I was so lost, I even thought about the Preamble to the Constitution. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But because she was an African American, she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z By the end of the year, the Thirteenth Amendment had been ratified and added to the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Critics of the Constitution, then and now, have condemned it as a betrayal of the core principles of the American Revolution, an American version of France’s Thermidorian reaction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1967, the Supreme Court said state bans on interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “To get the word male out of the Constitution cost the women of the country...years of pauseless campaigning,” she later wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1939 they applied again for the use of Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Constitution Hall was the largest and finest auditorium in Washington, home to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Opera Company, and host to distinguished visiting orchestras and concert artists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Happersett decision said that the Constitution did not give citizens the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In one swift move, Johnson had worked around a critical part of the US Constitution. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He pasted it on an empty page between his biology drawing of the aorta of a duck and his civics project on the history of the Constitution. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, the city has been blessed by a newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, that is not afraid to take a stand for right and justice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides working at the foundry, he was a young stringer for the Atlanta Constitution Tri-Weekly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And they objected to making discrimination against women part of the Constitution, fearful that it would make it more difficult for women to establish their rights at a later date. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Called "On the Constitutions of Atoms and Molecules," the paper explained how electrons could keep from falling into the nucleus by suggesting that they could occupy only certain well-defined orbits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The white man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests: “What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States Constitution?” he asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, according to the Soviet Constitution of 1936, also called “Stalin’s Constitution,” Soviet women had voting rights and gender equality with men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Haudenosaunee Constitution, called the Great Law of Peace, inspired some key parts of the US Constitution. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In the entire history of the United States, no amendment to the US Constitution had ever been repealed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Tennessee had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, which would now become part of the US Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “We teach our children about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in our schools,” Stella’s father said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he con-tended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In court, the suffragists argued that they had refused to stop picketing because their action was legal under the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z That policy went unchallenged until early January 1939, when the Howard University School of Music applied to book Constitution Hall for an appearance by Marian Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z As Anderson continued with her scheduled tour, the furor over Constitution Hall “seemed to increase and follow me wherever I went.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The first resolution was designed to appease the Deep South by confirming that the Constitution prohibited any federal legislation limiting or ending the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1952 the “white artists only” clause was removed from Constitution Hall contracts. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Followed by: Senator Oscar Diaz, responding via satellite, that President Claremont’s primary value is upholding the Constitution, and that the White House was built by slaves, not our forefathers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “When I was brought before your honor for trial,” she said, “I hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation of the Constitution.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Even so, being welcomed by the White House and applauded by royalty weren’t enough to open the doors of the most prestigious auditorium in Washington, D.C.—Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “But if you’re looking for clues to what they meant when they wrote certain parts of the Constitution it helps to know what the arguments were leading up to the writing.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z In each case, the high court had cited the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution, which bans “cruel and unusual” punishment. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His arguments for a fortified national government became the centerpiece around which all the compromises and revisions of the eventual document congealed, giving him the honorary title of “Father of the Constitution.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One of those benefits took place in Washington, D.C.—at Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Constitution was designed so the federal government would be weak, not only in its relationship to private property, but also in relationship to the rights of states to conduct their own affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In their eyes, he was a danger to democracy—“a man who flouted the authority of the Senate, who overrode the Constitution while his followers cheered.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Martin was perhaps the first public advocate of the “covenant with death” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the first former delegate to denounce the Sectional Compromise as a corrupt bargain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, for example, opponents of the Constitution objected to the implicit acceptance of slavery’s persistence, represented by the three-fifths clause and the twenty-year extension of the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Or sit him down with a history book, as long as it wasn’t the one Dad still kept in the living room, under the framed copy of the Constitution. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Daughters of the American Revolution, the patriotic organization that owned Constitution Hall, had ruled several years earlier that black artists would not be permitted to appear there. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Gentlemen who had been present at the formation of this Constitution”—Baldwin himself had been one such gentleman—could not avoid the recollection of the pain and difficulty which the subject caused in that body.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was the first instance in the history of the United States when the US Constitution actually denied rights instead of granting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I charged a small service fee. It’s not illegal. It’s called free enterprise, protected by the Constitution.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z While he thought the Constitution was crystal clear that Congress could not restrict or terminate the slave trade before 1808, it did not prohibit the members of the House from talking about the issue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Court had repeatedly made clear, though, that the Constitution does not require that racial minorities and women actually serve on juries—it only forbids excluding jurors on the basis of race or gender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Constitution—a battle that left a bad taste in the mouth for both sides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She practically memorized the entire Constitution by the time the test came around. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “They say it was Indians wrote the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Luther Martin, on the other hand, came out against the Constitution on the grounds that the protections afforded slavery render us contemptible to every true friend of liberty in the world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We are told that for the first seven years of his life he lived almost entirely on milk and milk products, plus fruit, with ‘no Flesh in the least agreeing with his weak Constitution’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His works were key texts from the end of the Dark Ages through the Renaissance and French Revolution to the drafting of the American Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Kennedy told the nation that segregation was a moral issue—“as old as the Scriptures and ... as clear as the American Constitution.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Constitution specifically provides that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For the first time in its history, the organization permitted a concert to be held in Constitution Hall with no segregation of any kind in the seating arrangements. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z June 4: The US Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to all the states for ratification. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It also introduced the word “male” to the Constitution for the first time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What could this man know of borders and states’ rights and die Constitution and Died Scott? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In barracks across the country, purges had begun of all those remaining loyal to the Constitution. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Civil War was being fought in the hopes of keeping the Union together and upholding the Constitution—not for the abolition of what Southerners liked to call “the peculiar institution.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Treaty making with Indigenous nations has a brief but important mention in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z So, Papi raised his right hand and swore to defend the Constitution of the United States, and we were here to stay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z With the Constitution now ratified and the new federal government safely in place, Franklin resumed his plea that slavery be declared incongruous with the revolutionary principles on which the nation was founded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Since black artists were barred from appearing at Constitution Hall, Howard officials decided to schedule Anderson’s 1936 concert at Armstrong High School, a black school with a large auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “The Turks wanted to invade all along. That malarkey about ‘protecting the Constitution’ was just a pretext.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I have serious doubts that trying to amend the Constitution would work on an actual level. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The high school my own children attended held its graduation ceremonies at Constitution Hall, near the White House. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution made precisely these points, but they were outmaneuvered, outargued, and ultimately outvoted by a dedicated band of national advocates in nine of the state ratifying conventions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In early 1865, Illinois struck down its Black Laws and became the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which enshrined in the Constitution the end of slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The thing to do was to be prepared—as my grandfather had been when it was demanded that he quote the entire United States Constitution as a test of his fitness to vote. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Woodhull pointed out that the Fourteenth Amendment used the word “persons” and that the Founding Fathers had also used the word “persons” rather than distinguish between men and women when they drafted the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The underlying reason for this calculated orchestration of noncommitment was obvious: Any clear resolution of the slavery question one way or the other rendered ratification of the Constitution virtually impossible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Woodhull noted that the Constitution didn’t prohibit women from running for president, although they did not yet have the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In fact, the Virginia Resolutions described the Alien and Sedition Acts as “alarming infractions” of the Constitution that violated the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Even the little ones could rattle off long passages from the Bible, the Declaration, and the Constitution. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The controversy over Constitution Hall had started while Anderson was on a nationwide tour, and as she said later, she wasn’t fully aware of what was happening until she spotted that San Francisco headline. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The states’ rights guaranteed under the Constitution seem to be passionately and gleefully exercised. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned home for a few months in 1779, just long enough to draft almost single-handedly the Massachusetts Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The amendment was ratified by the states and became part of the Constitution in December 1865. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Constitution Hall, completed in 1929, was the largest and finest auditorium in Washington, D.C. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Some years later, DePreist was engaged to conduct a series of concerts with Washington’s National Symphony at Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Abandoning his strict constructionism, Roberts unilaterally amended the Constitution and had Obama “solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As it was, Jefferson had become a man “poisoned by ambition and his Temper embittered against the Constitution and the Administration.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Constitution—with a couple of short sentences, solemnly agreeing to take on the country’s every concern. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You get paid to teach government. The first, second, and third amendments to the Constitution. Stuff like that. Why don’t you just dive right in?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She told a later director of the NSA that it was a “search-and-seizure act,” a violation of their rights under the Constitution. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The federally guaranteed right to vote gave them the opportunity to elect officials who would protect all the other basic rights guaranteed by federal law and the Constitution. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Constitution of the United States, only recently ratified, specifically prohibited the Congress from passing any law that abolished or restricted the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Smith also led the debate on behalf of the Deep South on that other great text, which was not the Bible but the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Anthony was prepared: With a copy of the US Constitution in hand, she read the Fourteenth Amendment aloud to the election officials. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I will seek the mantle of leadership and stand prepared to uphold the Constitution and the American way of life. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The president swore to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States when he took office. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only ten years after the passage and ratification of the Constitution, however, what were treasonable or seditious acts remained blurry and more problematic judgments without the historical sanction that only experience could provide. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Constitution is suspended and the regional government and elected assemblies are hereby dissolved. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Fifteen thousand veterans made their way up Constitution Avenue toward the Wall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Constitution’s Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, does not mention Indigenous peoples, but it had a significant impact on them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The incontrovertible truth was that slavery was “one of those habits established long before the Constitution, and could not now be remedied.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Framers of the Constitution, like most North American colonists, lived at a time when Indians were large presences in their lives—ones that naturally influenced their ideas and actions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In her speeches, Anthony cited the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the New York Constitution; she quoted American patriots. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As a result, representatives in the United States had drawn up the Constitution with particular attention to the issue of where they would meet in the future. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So it’s Friday morning and I'm sitting in history listening to Mr. Penny, the history teacher, talk about all the arguments they had before they set up the Constitution. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z ERC, they call it, and their main goal is to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and added to the Constitution. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the Constitution contained no provisions that specifically sanctioned slavery as a permanent and protected institution south of the Potomac or anywhere else. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z While hardly an earthshaking question, it had symbolic significance because of the obsessive American suspicion of monarchy, which haunted all conversations about the powers of the presidency under the recently ratified Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The debates in the ratifying conventions of the respective states only exposed the irreconcilable differences of opinion that the Constitution had so deftly bundled together. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The National Woman Suffrage Association had been working toward an amendment to the US Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When Constitution Hall was opened in 1929, DAR officials had set aside a small section of seats in the rear balcony for black patrons. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z So they applied for U.S. citizenship, sitting up at night reading the Constitution, a dictionary by their side, and studying for the exam. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z If this was the first test of the viability of the new federal government under the Constitution, the government was failing miserably. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It’s a takeover. It's a violation of the Constitution!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In social studies I scored ninety-nine percent on the final test on the United States Constitution. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z In addition, she was too young to run; the US Constitution requires that the president be at least thirty-five years old, and she would still have been thirty-four on Inauguration Day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Constitution off a postage stamp, and when I got two weeks behind on that, I had two more weeks of newspapers to pick up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Private security doesn’t need to uphold an oath to the Constitution. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Constitution actually says or what it requires of the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Didn’t the men that we give honor to, the men that shaped up the Constitution of our country, didn’t they recognize slavery? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you gotta pass a test—about the Constitution of the United States.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She also cited the section of the New York Constitution that pertained to voting, which said nothing about sex qualification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Constitution did not resolve these questions; it only provided an orderly framework within which the arguments could continue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I say it is the Ordonance of God Almighty, in the Constitution of human nature, and wrought into the Fabric of the Universe,” Adams answered. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The actual debate in the House in the fall and winter of 1795 proceeded under Madison’s more cautious leadership and narrower interpretation of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This time they were using the Constitution, the rule book for their country, to achieve justice. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z At 8 a.m., he signed a proclamation adding the women’s suffrage amendment to the US Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Eleanor Roosevelt learned a valuable lesson from the Constitution Hall controversy. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z By then she had retired from the concert stage, following a farewell tour that began with a sold-out concert in Washington’s Constitution Hall, where she had once been barred from singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The depth and apparent intractability of the problem became much clearer during the debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Constitution Hall clearly was the most appropriate place in Washington for a concert by Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z As Schreck‘s debate opponent argues in “Constitution”: “Just like us this document is flawed. But just like us it is also capable of getting better.” How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z "This was the Constitution, but it didn’t take effect until it had been debated and ratified," Kiffer added. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z So, I was lead to the mountaintop — a real one, on a map: Constitution Mountain, the highest point on Puget Sound’s Orcas Island. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z As the word “elitist” continues to undergo unfair demonization, no one dare utter that the framers of the United States Constitution were, themselves, elitists. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Delbanco traces how the compromises of the Constitution, along with the long history of compromise in the century that followed, tried to paper over the violent reality of chattel slavery. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But now he was in Washington, slipping into the buttery Naugahyde of a 1963 Corvette Stingray, and rough edges blurred, and women on Constitution Avenue were yelling “Cool car!” at him instead of “Mulva?!” Behind the wheel of the Obama episode of Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z And while it’s likely that most people haven’t done so since middle school, those who carry a Constitution do so with pride — and inevitably, a little bragging. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket Contrary to his insistence, Tribe does not argue that the natural born clause of the Constitution renders Cruz ineligible, but rather uses the issue to draw attention to the absurdity of Cruz’s judicial philosophy. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z He went on to write an opinion piece in The New York Times condemning the government’s plans to hold a vote that would allow it to rewrite the country’s Constitution. Venezuela’s Government Cancels Another Gustavo Dudamel Tour 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Lepore cites Mencken’s spoof Constitution for Roosevelt: “All governmental power of whatever sort shall be vested in a president of the United States.” The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The founding fathers were accused by some historians of writing the Constitution to protect their landed wealth. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “Doing so vests two core powers of different branches — legislating and prosecuting — in the same person and is thus barred by the plain language of Article III of the New Mexico Constitution.” Alec Baldwin’s Lawyers Say ‘Rust’ Prosecutor Should Be Disqualified 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z “And of course a pocket Constitution is perfect for Trump,” Meyers said, “because it will look regular-sized in his tiny hands.” Seth Meyers says it perfectly, again: Watch him trash Trump for slamming slain soldier’s parents 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z She helped draft the Constitution of Moldova after it declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and, in the mid-1990s, served in a devastated Sarajevo at the end of the Bosnian war. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z From the mundane to the fundamental, every day we ask our courts to interpret legal documents, legislation and the Constitution itself. Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z Oh, you mean that thing where the United States Supreme Court asserted that the Constitution wasn’t written to uphold the worldview of one religion? Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z Mr. Obama explained, “I’m leaving because it’s required by the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution.” It’s Late Night With President Obama 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Less well known is an antislavery interpretation of the Constitution mounted by abolitionists and other opponents of slavery to counter the views of the Southern “slave power.” Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution, is offensive, appalling and insensitive,” Mr. Jackson said in a statement Monday. Noticed: Adidas Cancels Release of Shackle Sneakers 2012-06-20T21:00:50Z Orcas is popular with hikers, who are rewarded with sweeping sea views at the peak of Mount Constitution in Moran State Park and on Turtleback Mountain, among other places. On Orcas Island in Washington, Hiking and Hot Tubs 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But then came Raskin’s description of what happened afterward — not to the invaders or the Capitol or the Constitution, but to him and his family. Perspective | Jamie Raskin told us how to think about Jan. 6. Then he showed us how to feel about it. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z This is a perfect example of how the media reinforce an informal but increasingly binding religious test for public office that the Constitution formally bans. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z Phung has a photo stored on her smartphone of a food truck that, in August, was parked illegally at the intersection of Seventh Street and Constitution Avenue NW, next to a fire hydrant no less. Food trucks on the Mall? Stationary vendors worry about the impending competition Years ago, I read the Library of America’s terrific “The Debate on the Constitution,” a two-volume set edited by historian Bernard Bailyn that tells the story of ratification in something akin to real time. Some alternate Americas for the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Constitution, Pregerson wrote in the ruling that was welcomed by the performers. Hall of justice helps out Hollywood superheroes 2010-11-19T15:50:00Z He was also the winner, in 1997, of a Pulitzer Prize for his book “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.” Books of The Times: Jack Rakove?s ?Revolutionaries,? Founding Fathers 2010-05-30T21:07:00Z This notion of a living document is directly at odds with the conception of Justice Antonin Scalia of the , who has spoken of “the good, old dead Constitution.” Study of Obama Finds a Pragmatic Intellectual 2010-10-27T17:44:00Z “We know the Constitution,” said Burns, 38, of her fellow Washingtonians. Shock. Outrage. Resistance. Repeat. Is this the new normal in Trump’s America? 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Comedian Samantha Bee, one of Trump’s fiercest critics, staged a rogue event for the younger crowd at DAR Constitution Hall titled “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” The night Donald Trump failed to break the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Constitution — the so called “emoluments clause” that would seem to prohibit government officials from accepting gifts, money or other benefits, “from any king, prince, or foreign state.” D.C. Trump hotel emblazoned with “Pay Trump Bribes Here” sign 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Constitution, criminal justice, racism and history qualifies as must-see viewing, touching on the animating political and philosophical issues of our era. The best movies of 2016: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Southside With You’ make the top 10 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Another word that does not appear in our Constitution is ‘woman.’ Perspective | Here’s the speech Biden should give about abortion 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z And some states require that voters be able to read or understand the Constitution. To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Even though the word “privacy” itself doesn’t appear in the Constitution, the Supreme Court has nevertheless found that protections for it are implied. ‘Seek and Hide’ Grapples With the Complexity of the Right to Privacy 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Somewhat miraculously, Constitution Avenue had turned into a march. Scenes from the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution” Marcia Coyle possesses the background to prove that she is one of the most knowledgeable observers of the U.S. ‘The Roberts Court:’ informed look at today’s Supreme Court 2013-06-12T22:35:07Z FRI Norwegian Constitution Day celebration; children’s activities, Nordic Cafe, free admission, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-15T23:42:30Z She was also very poetic and had memorized long passages of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, poetry and even the language of the Constitution and Declaration. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z “Constitution,” which some panned as a lecture, asks us to look critically at the foundational document of our democracy and decide whether it is now too compromised to save. When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z There is no provision for a central bank in America’s Constitution. How Much Power Does the Federal Reserve Have? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Part constitutional law seminar, part rollicking comedy, Heidi Schreck’s show about her fraught romance with the Constitution finds a more perfect home: Broadway. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “He’s the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books and the Constitution of the United States.” John Kerry on Bill Maher: Trump is immature and ignorant, focused on Twitter “likes” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Supreme Surprise: High Court to Question Legality of Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion 2011-11-16T22:13:29Z It’s not my message — it’s the message of our Constitution. Rev. William J. Barber II: The Trump administration has violated what Jesus said should be our top priorities 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z In time, the Daughters of the American Revolution dropped its exclusionary policy at Constitution Hall. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z This original sin of the country that has not been paid, and, to put it in more legal terms under the Constitution, we compensate people if we take, if the government takes their property. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z As the Constitution states, the census is supposed to enumerate all people in the United States, not just all citizens. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Visitors to the museum will enter on the National Mall side and exit on Constitution Avenue to help minimize crowding at the entry points, Johnson said. Final phase of Smithsonian reopening begins in June, including popular Natural History Museum 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Constitution Plus One: “I’m told that Article 8 is written on the back of the Constitution in invisible ink, and gives me unilateral authority to postpone the election.” Style Invitational Week 1399: The lie-zy days of summer 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z And that was before President Trump, in an interview this week, called for limitations on birthright citizenship, which was written into the Constitution in 1868 via the 14th Amendment, one of the era’s signal achievements. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Constitution is the supreme law of the country. One ‘good boy’ helped give women the right to vote 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z In Feldman’s capable hands, Madison becomes the original embodiment of our “living Constitution.” James Madison’s Zigzag Path 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z During the past days she has gone twice to the National Archives to read the Constitution in the original. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Finally, the Constitution also allowed for a secular view of society and life to also flourish as government was forced to step away. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z But in her 1984 interview, Anderson made clear she knew little in advance of the open-air concert organised in place of the one that did not happen in Constitution Hall. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z Our Constitution, with its three-fifths clause and fugitive slave clause, is shameful testimony to that. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The theater has had several other notable Broadway transfers, including the Tony-winning musicals “Once” and “Hadestown,” as well as the acclaimed plays “Slave Play” and “What the Constitution Means to Me.” New York Theater Workshop Names Patricia McGregor as Artistic Director 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z They would visit the National Archives to look at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the Old Post Office Pavilion, where the Scouts would get a big surprise. Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Since the establishment of Constitution Day, the 68-year-old has steered his organization away from its conservative roots and toward a mission of constitutional education. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket Brettschneider’s insistence on a coherent, unified constitutional narrative allows him to claim that the liberal values he favors are dictated by the Constitution itself. What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln supported the Constitution and political action, but in the end he also paid with his life. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution. Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Given that ratification of the Constitution required states to consent to reductions in their own powers, it was a term to be avoided. The Nation’s Founders, Michael J. Fox and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It will encourage visitors to contribute to a public workshop that aims to conceptualize imagined amendments to the United States Constitution. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Supreme Court announced two historic decisions, ruling that same-sex marriage was protected under the Constitution and upholding much of Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Obama speechwriter’s memoir ‘Grace’ to come out in 2022 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Americans owe her a debt of gratitude for her recognition that we are not strangers to our own Constitution and should receive its equal protection. Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In an email, Ms. Hill’s lawyer, George Kontos, said that he disagreed with the judge’s decision that Cosby’s statements were protected by the Constitution, and said that he planned to appeal. Judge in Bill Cosby Case Dismisses Pittsburgh Woman’s Defamation Suit 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Even Broadway shows — “Kiss Me, Kate,” elegantly updated to excise the sexism, and Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” — are thinking about empathy along gender lines, and who deserves it from us. Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z In the preamble to the Constitution, the “we” in “we the people” meant something real different way back when they wrote it. ‘America has never fully lived up to its ideals,’ says Biden adviser Symone Sanders 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z It is where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Saudi TV Just Got a Lot More Feminist 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The idea for “What the Constitution Means to Me” came to her maybe 20 years ago. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Successful presidents and their supporters, and those from the opposing party, understand that showing respect for one another also shows respect for the Constitution, the institutions of government and the country, according to the authors. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Constitution Amendment VIII, but also civil defendants facing arbitrarily high punitive awards.” Judge Cuts $675,000 Fine in Downloading Case 2010-07-12T16:58:00Z Constitution: with a funny example or analogy; as a pithy proverb or slogan; in a short poem, a song parody, a graphic, you name it. Style Invitational Week 1293: Constitutional unconvention 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Last year, thousands of people raised more than $40 million in Ether, a top cryptocurrency, through a DAO in just a week with the hope of buying a first printing of the United States Constitution. Crypto Joins the Abortion Conversation 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z "Let me ask you: Have you even read the United States Constitution?" Pocket Constitution becomes bestseller after Khizr Khan's convention speech 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Voting is an important part of a democracy, but it wasn’t something the Founding Fathers included in the Constitution. To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z He doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of Obamacare, and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution. Robert Reich: Ted Cruz is even more dangerous than Donald Trump 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 27: our contest for novel explanations for parts of the Constitution. Style Invitational Week 1294: As the word turns — a neologism contest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z "What the Constitution Means to Me" is currently streaming on Amazon. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Under this plan, which requires amending the Constitution, a president would nominate a new justice every two years to replace one whose term had ended. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z America is too young and too perpetually roiled to have much of a settled tradition for a conservative to defend, but what it has in the place of tradition is a Constitution. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “What the Constitution Means to Me” features Schreck recalling her teenage self in constitutional debating competitions, exploring immigration and Roe v. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ is coming to the Kennedy Center, with its star 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z If he doesn’t believe that the checks and balances baked into the Constitution will actually work, then why isn’t he screaming that from a rooftop instead of tweeting it to Pierre Delecto’s eight followers? Perspective | The woeful defeatism of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But it is also surrounded by the perpetual traffic of Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues and, despite its size, marooned in one of this city’s awkward pocket parks. One of D.C.’s great fountains comes back to life, but it shouldn’t have taken so long 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But mostly he was a combative writer whose strict interpretation of the Constitution on gay rights, gun control and other polarizing issues galvanized conservatives and sharpened the acrimony in American politics. Shining a light into the political chasm of America through Scalia and 'The Originalist' 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z "There is one thing that sets us apart from most other nations in the world and that is our Constitution," retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told Sagal. NPR host Sagal hits the road in 'Constitution USA' 2013-05-07T19:26:09Z But beneath the veneer of Johnson’s proclaimed fidelity to the Constitution lurked a combative personality and deep-seated bigotry that drove his opposition to political equality for former slaves. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “Sila” will be performed Friday evening in Constitution Gardens and Saturday afternoon at the Jefferson Memorial. John Luther Adam’s ‘Sila’ finds its breath at Meridian Hill Park 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z MAY 17 Ballard celebrates Norway's Constitution Day, games, crafts, fjord horses, music, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-09T22:07:04Z Concessions made to the Deep South over slavery, he writes, “appear horrific to our eyes,” but without them, “the Constitution almost certainly could never have come into existence.” Review: ‘The Quartet,’ by Joseph Ellis, Details the Constitution’s Gang of Four 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z They chose the National Constitution Center, a Philadelphia museum focused on the history of the Constitution of the United States, as their spot. Finding a Love Connection on Zoom 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Wenatchee is where “What the Constitution Means to Me” ostensibly takes place. Review | Seeing Broadway’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ feels like a patriotic act. Here’s why. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Both exhibitions run through May 3 at the National Gallery of Art, on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th streets along Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. The National Gallery of Art Acquires Artworks from the Corcoran 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Trump and his White House team have gone off the rails, Orrick wrote, ignoring the Constitution, offering arguments that make no legal sense and making repeated threats that show a lack of control. 6 reasons Trump and Sessions are constitutional idiots when it comes to threatening and punishing sanctuary cities 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z At approximately 11 a.m., he will travel along 15th Street NW, Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW. How to See Pope Francis During His U.S. Visit 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck’s autobiographical play that uses a childhood speech and debate competition to explore the treatment of gender in American legal history, will transfer to Broadway this spring. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ to Open on Broadway in March 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z I was really a young acolyte of the Constitution. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Week 1293, explain part of the Constitution: The Eighth Amendment: "Cruel punishment": Someone guilty of theft being imprisoned for life. Style Invitational Week 1314: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In the 1790s, George Washington’s Federalist Party wanted to amend the Constitution. Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z On Friday, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the annual Court review of the American Constitution Society, a group “dedicated to…countering the activist conservative legal movement.” Scalia and Ginsburg Drop Hints about Obamacare's Fate at the Supreme Court 2012-06-18T03:47:14Z And I never thought I'd run around quoting the Constitution, but we have a right to pursue happiness. From "Black-ish" to "I Love That For You," Jenifer Lewis keeps going: "I'm one of the lucky ones" 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In the 1880s, Chinese residents were living blocks away, concentrated near Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Perspective | In Chinatown, the spirit of German immigrants 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z "Because his insistence that his lawlessness, of he trying to get his way, it tramples our Constitution. So, from debt. And I won't even get into the details of everything." Jon Stewart discovers the secret of Sarah Palin's mangled syntax 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In 2002 the State Supreme Court ruled that both the First Amendment and the Colorado Constitution “protect an individual’s fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference.” Joyce Meskis, Bookseller Who Defended Readers’ Rights, Dies at 80 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Still, it was brave of the curator and the manager of Constitution Hill to support me. Bawdy Provocations 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z But certainly the existence of Indian tribes on a permanent basis was anticipated by the founders and the Constitution. The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Tour highlights: Being in “the room where it happened” — the upstairs study with a view of the Virginia countryside where Madison researched forms of government and drafted the Constitution. Montpelier was the home of James Madison most of his life 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z One of the young actresses in the show, Thursday Williams, who engages in a nightly debate over the Constitution with Schreck, took away something even more profound from her encounter with Ginsburg. Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave her life to the country — and her heart to the performing arts 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The word “nation” did not appear in the Constitution they wrote and ratified. The Nation’s Founders, Michael J. Fox and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Falwell that satire and parody are protected speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Song lyrics, like the Constitution, are living, breathing words. Down with song-lyric fascists 2013-04-13T20:00:00Z Democrats thought he was a tyrant, a rube, and was destroying the Constitution. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The Constitution, and in particular the First Amendment, seemed to set Jews free. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z FRI-SUN Celebration of Norwegian heritage and Norwegian Constitution Day with road race, vendors, carnival, lutefisk and oyster eating contests, entertainment, Viking Village recreates life in the year 975; parade 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-15T23:42:30Z Will Heidi Schreck, nominated for best actress in a play and with her “What the Constitution Mean to Me” also up for best play, be the first to win both awards in a single year? Broadway readies for biggest audience of the year at Tonys 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Constitution, which restricts members of the U.S. government from receiving gifts from foreign powers. Meet Robin Bell, the artist who projected protest messages onto Trump's D.C. hotel last night 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z At the time, the Cherokee Constitution required approval of new tribal amendments by the Secretary of the Interior—the head of the same federal agency that attempted to wipe out the Cherokee Nation’s government. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z Obama Recess Appointments Are Blocked by Court A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Obama violated the Constitution when he made three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board last year. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2013-01-25T22:53:40Z Many students of the Constitution misunderstand why “natural born” was added to the qualification for president. Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z According to Sri Lanka's Constitution, new parties cannot register when an election is "pending" in any part of the country. US embassy cables: Sri Lankan government accused of complicity in human rights abuses 2010-12-16T21:30:38Z Constitution, along with any notion of basic decency, police officers shackled suspects for nearly 24 hours, subjected them to physical abuse and neglect, and denied attorneys access to the facility. The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z There are several anti-states-rights provisions in the Constitution, if you know where to look for them, but, like the 14th Amendment, they would never be put to effective use. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating the Constitution could be defended, however dubiously, as merely an act of compassion for an old man. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Seeing Broadway’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ feels like a patriotic act. Perspective | Trump’s White House doesn’t support the arts. Nancy Pelosi is rallying the cause instead. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Then he pulled out a pocket-size Constitution — a favorite totem of Tea Party Republicans in recent years. Her Shot: Hillary Clinton Shares a Vision of America Out of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z When did the Constitution become a partisan issue? "The everyday guy can fight and sometimes win": ACLU doc goes inside four David & Goliath cases 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “However, any state law involving marriage or any other protected interest must comply with the United States Constitution.” Texas ban on marriage equality ruled unconstitutional, Rick Perry upset 2014-02-26T22:08:00Z “A lot of times people think of the National Archives, and they stop at the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,” said Hilary Parkinson, a public affairs specialist for the agency. The Record Keepers’ Rave 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are on permanent display in the rotunda of the 1934 neoclassical building. ArtsBeat: Expansion at the National Archives Means More Focus on Human Rights 2013-06-10T17:17:40Z Like Boutrous, he said the Constitution and prior case law make no distinction between a responsible journalist and an irresponsible one. Julian Assange’s charges are ‘dangerous’ to press freedom, advocates say 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In such a view, it had all been a struggle between two reasonable parties over the nature of the Constitution; slavery was incidental. The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Long before I set foot in the United States, I studied its Constitution and its history. Love and Betrayal in America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Certainly, there's Saul's color palette, and all the symbols of Saul's office, you know: the Statue of Liberty, the Constitution wallpaper, all the references to Greek architecture. How the tragic imagery of "Better Call Saul," rendered in black & white, tells the "emotional story" 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In the country where the irresponsible legislators misinterpret the Constitution and permit guns everywhere - oh wait - not everywhere - everywhere except where they work - like the Capitol Building or the inauguration of the current president. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Maybe the success of “What the Constitution Means to Me” will spur others to bond over the document’s interpretive mutability. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It was a showboating move, for sure, and Hoffa was “an improbable defender of the American Constitution,” Goldsmith writes, but just because Hoffa’s talk of civil liberties was conspicuously self-serving doesn’t mean he was wrong. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And last, but certainly not least: That opposition is at the heart of our democracy, especially when you really believe the Constitution is violated or there are moral and ethical issues at stake. Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against Afghan war: ‘I almost wish ... I had been wrong’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Hunter cites, among some of his references, Ben Franklin, the Constitution, Pete Seeger, the Bible, E. E. cummings, Bonnie Dobson, an Eastertide anthem called “Roll Away the Stone,” and the birth of his son. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Schreck spoke with Salon about her play and about the Constitution. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Rauch’s subject, in “The Constitution of Knowledge,” is the building of human understanding. Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Unless one of those policies is to change the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, there will continue to be only one kind of imports here. Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Constitution will be going up for auction in November. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Specifically, “You should never use the bully pulpit to speak in a way that is contrary to the values of the Constitution.” What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The document is one of 11 surviving copies of the official first printing of the Constitution, which were produced for the Constitutional Convention delegates and for the Continental Congress. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The president believes this is an issue, that there is a fundamental right in this country, protected by the Constitution, to respect different religions. MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell on Motherhood and the Midterms 2010-09-01T13:20:00Z I watched it, as if it was a night baseball game, at Chuck Morgan’s house on Constitution Avenue over fried chicken and beer. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “You can subvert the Constitution and make it harder for people to vote, make it more difficult for government to work,” he said. Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In the United States, it is widely seen as the basis for some of the principles in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Man Arrested in Britain on Suspicion of Trying to Damage Magna Carta 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z For Northern Democrats, this is what caused the crisis; the Republicans were to blame for trying to get around the Constitution. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Sessions and Trump seem to put a lot of stock in respect for symbols like the flag, the Constitution and the national anthem. Perspective | Jeff Sessions sounded like a free-speech champion at Georgetown. That’s absurd. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Constitution respond to the repudiation of every decent expectation, to what Whitehead describes as “indiscriminate spite”? How, in other words, can African Americans endure in a country that preaches such idealism but delivers such misery? Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Or, “One Nation Under Socialism,” in which he has lit the Constitution on fire. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z For Sagal, it was a chance to learn more about the Constitution and to relearn how to handle a motorcycle. NPR host Sagal hits the road in 'Constitution USA' 2013-05-07T19:26:09Z “If one of those branches is so hamstringed, so paralyzed, as it is right now, do you really have the three equal branches of government that our Constitution has set out?” Does the House even exist right now? 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z What I find really striking about this play is how you contrast the sort of lofty legalistic and rhetorical language in the Constitution with the messy realities of women's lives. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But it was originally meant to be a cap on a large, aboveground rectangular volume that stretched almost to the sidewalk along Constitution Avenue, space that was eventually moved underground. Even a $540 million building can suffer from cost cutting 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z And those elements are all on display at the new exhibition at the National Constitution Center here, “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.” Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z But the new Constitution had to be approved by the states, and here Pinckney’s handiwork sparked some controversy. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z “And we want to express it freely like the Constitution says.” “Fox and Friends” guest: Secularists want to turn me into “atheist chaplain” by removing prayer in schools 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s one minor problem: arming the Militia is one of the enumerated powers of Congress described in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Democrats Pre-Emptively Second-Guess Each Other on Obamacare's Supreme Court Reckoning 2012-06-25T03:59:05Z Fifteen months and much more work later, “Liberty Bell” is being unveiled on Saturday, in six spots where American history is still being interpreted, its Constitution tested and its identities forged. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet that movement altered the Constitution in a radical fashion, extending its reach to matters once considered personal and restricting freedoms rather than expanding them. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z Some titles of the Republican speeches included, “The Foundations of the Constitution” and “The Vicissitudes of a Practical Politician.” When politicians really spoke in sound bites 2012-10-02T18:53:00Z Constitution understood that a free press was essential for a healthy democracy. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Previously, the state party platform defined marriage as “between a man and a woman,” as does the Nevada Constitution. Nevada GOP drops platform against marriage equality and abortion rights 2014-04-14T13:28:00Z After the Revolution, when the federal Constitution was being drafted, a delegate from South Carolina named Charles Pinckney decided that there should be no such religious qualifications for federal office. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z Constitution, and appoints himself judge, jury and executioner when dealing with anyone under suspicion of illegal activity. The Punisher skull: Unofficial logo of the white American death cult 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z "The debate on what the Constitution would say was over with this document. The debate about whether the Constitution was going to be adopted was just beginning." Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Constitution allowed Congress to ban the Atlantic slave trade. The Cotton Gin, Squirrel Hill and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The Constitution Drafting Committee, a group hand-picked by the military to prepare a new constitution after the previous one was scrapped following a May coup, began work this week. Thailand to recognize 'third gender' in new constitution: panel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z I guess the Constitution can go suck it. Scott Adams takes on Salon 2011-06-23T14:52:00Z The program began with extralegal wiretapping facilitated by the major telecommunications corporations in direct violation of the Constitution. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z From the beginning of the Republic the slave system was embedded in the Constitution, even if the framers declined to name it as such. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead, he got into an industry whose purpose is enshrined in the Constitution and whose workers are well-versed in questioning authority and defining a narrative — and started cutting their jobs. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one’s buying it. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z As a representative from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, his younger half-brother, Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble of the Constitution. In the Bronx, finding hidden ties to Washington 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z That the recent hot-button plays “What the Constitution Means to Me” and “Slave Play” ran there. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “He was a businessman and a politician who believed the Constitution protected the capital of his class and culture above everything else.” Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In 2013, they debated at the University of Carolina over the influence of capitalism on the framing of the Constitution. Gordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Last season’s “What the Constitution Means to Me,” nominated for a Tony Award, interleaved memoir with constitutional law analysis. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z As McNaughton notes in his Twitter bio, his most famous work may be “The Forgotten Man,” which features President Obama trampling the Constitution as the Founding Fathers look on in horror. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z "We await the CEP decision but the laws of the Haitian Constitution must be respected," he said in one of a flurry of e-mails. Wyclef hides out, awaits word on Haiti run 2010-08-18T01:16:00Z The former president spoke from Philadelphia, the city where the Constitution was signed. Perspective | The warning from Kamala Harris and the convention’s third night: Our house is on fire 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As mandated by our Constitution, he received a majority of the votes in the Electoral College and thus for the next four years will be given the powers and responsibilities of our nation’s chief executive. Clinton’s inaugural address: What Hillary should say right before Donald Trump takes the stage 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z More than half of the Senate favored removing Johnson from office, but the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution proved just out of reach. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Just days after Pearl Harbor, MacLeish secretly moved it, along with the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence and other treasures, to Fort Knox for safekeeping during the war. Review | The Library of Congress: ‘The book Palace of the American People’ 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “People address the Constitution as if it was the Bible,” Mr. Longo said. Robert Longo Installation Will Come to Hunter College 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Madison didn’t see the need to protect individual freedom with a bill of rights when he and others wrote the Constitution in 1787. No monument for Madison. But one of his legacies is freedom of the press. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Under the Constitution, Barack Obama cannot seek a third term, so in November, voters will elect a new president, who will be sworn in next January. Campaign 2016: Understanding the presidential election 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The participants in such competitions were asked to assess the impact of the Constitution on their own lives. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A year earlier she had sung at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, which owned the hall. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Being at the National Constitution Center, in the center of the start of this country, was really symbolic of American history and African-American history, and the integration of that,” Ms. Spigner said. Finding a Love Connection on Zoom 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The series drew national attention in television news programs and from organizations like the Literary Guild, the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club, which recommended his book about the Constitution. Sam Fink, Letterer and Illustrator of Historical Texts, Dies at 95 2011-11-05T06:18:09Z About 50 people are joining in panel discussions on Saturday and Sunday at the Constitution Center, a museum dedicated to explaining the U.S. Ken Burns: New film fits into civility discourse 2011-03-25T17:48:08Z The Civil War began over one basic issue: Was slavery, the ownership of human beings, a legitimate national institution, fixed in national law by the United States Constitution? How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “I’m not particularly in favor of it,” he told The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, as the paper was then known, in 1994. Wendell Logan, Composer of Jazz and Concert Music, Dies at 69 2010-06-22T23:32:00Z Such words are challenging in a conservative state that’s still trying to remove racist language from a Constitution passed in 1901 to protect the political power of white people. Alabama governor honors state’s first Black poet laureate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Constitution and a draft of the Bill of Rights. 1789 Acts of Congress to be auctioned in NYC 2012-04-24T16:31:20Z "I'm into freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America. I'm not a follower." Pork sliders sold by Republican House candidate who supports QAnon gave customers diarrhea: records 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Butler enlisted two years ago, helping to add a closing section in which Ms. Schreck and a teen debater argue whether to retain the Constitution or to scrap it. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z A worried friend recalled Gödel talking about “some inner contradictions” in the Constitution that would make it legally possible “for somebody to become a dictator and set up a fascist regime.” A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z He dramatized its purpose with statues at its Constitution Avenue entrance, one a female figure dubbed “Heritage,” the other a male figure called “Guardianship.” Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z He’s bankrolling a petition drive to amend the Michigan Constitution so that any new bridge or tunnel to Canada would require a statewide vote. The Billionaire Vs. The Nerd: Who Gets To Control International Trade With Canada? 2012-06-22T15:56:09Z But the authors, one of whom is a legal scholar, explore how the Constitution’s flaws have led not only to the Civil War but also to partisan gridlock, voter apathy and disenfranchisement. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Sitting in the balcony of the Helen Hayes Theater on Saturday evening, two teenagers munched on Welch’s Fruit Snacks and said goodbye to their Broadway show, “What the Constitution Means to Me.” What ‘The Constitution’ Meant to Two Teenage Performers 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The video also notes that the book’s Sept. 17 release date is Constitution Day, which recognizes the date the United States’ foundational document was signed in 1787. Edward Snowden’s Memoir Is Coming in September 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “My faith in the Constitution is whole. It is complete. It is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.” How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I spent way too many hours in the Constitution Center and historical sites of Old City. Marvel's Venom pulls up NYC stake for Philly steak 2012-09-03T08:46:05Z Because you’re exercising the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers: ‘You cannot fight racism with racism. You have to fight it with solidarity.’ 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z She sang there because she was not allowed to perform at her first choice, Constitution Hall, which had a white-artists-only policy. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Anderson sang for 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after segregationist policies barred her from performing at Washington’s DAR Constitution Hall — the largest auditorium in the city. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States give an update on the State of the Union from “time to time.” President Trump didn’t need the State of the Union to speak his mind. He does it all the time. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z A Nadler aide, asked at the time about the bag’s contents, said, “A babka and the Constitution, what else?” — a quip that inspired approving nods on the West Side’s nosh circuit and beyond. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z He read from Article 9 of the Italian Constitution, promising protection for “the historical and artistic heritage of the nation.” Abroad: In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera 2010-12-10T19:15:00Z When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg married a same-sex couple in May, she proudly proclaimed that she did so "by the powers invested in me by the Constitution of the United States." With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The US Constitution states: "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The justice is remembered today primarily for his dissenting opinions arguing that judges should not impose their policy preferences by finding unwritten rights in the Constitution. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Norway became an independent country in 1814 with its own Constitution, but remained in a union with Sweden under the Swedish king until 1905. More Than Fjords: A New Museum to Put Oslo on the Map 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In the end, restoring the antislavery intent of the Constitution leaves a more perplexing question at the heart of American democracy. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Perry, the Court will consider a challenge to the 2008 amendment to the California Constitution known as Proposition 8, which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry in California, and in United States v. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z He is not willing to defend my way of life, my country, my Constitution, my democracy. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z I’ve been down Constitution Avenue many, many times, yet I never knew that it was built over a filthy creek that still runs beneath it. Two hours, 22 stops: Playing tourist in D.C. on a double-decker sightseeing bus 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Led by a group calling itself the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, the occupiers argued that the Constitution did not give the federal government the right to own land. Collaboration, not fighting, is what the rural West is really about 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “We brought it back to its architectural roots,” she said of the building, at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue on the North edge of the Mall. The dinos are coming (in another 18 months)! Natural History Museum returns first fossil to gallery 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z To address these questions, it is first critical to locate the circumstances under which India was born, and the complex contexts within which the Indian Constitution took shape and form. India is on its way to becoming a Hindu nation, suppressing multiculturalism 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Please point out in the Constitution where these views "dismantle" our constitutional principles. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z They claimed that many parts of the Constitution worked against slavery. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z During his third inauguration, Roosevelt spiced things up with a Constitution Hall gala the evening before he was sworn in. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z This country and our rule of law and Constitution will be paramount. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “If he read it on Constitution Day in a classroom, that would be a really great step in the direction of supporting James Madison and his beliefs,” she said. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z He has 94 followers and a bio that lists him as “Soldier for the Constitution.” Perspective | For Stormy Daniels, swatting away Twitter trolls is a work of art 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Part of Mr. Trump’s argument against Ms. Zervos is that his statements were “fiery rhetoric, hyperbole and opinion” that are protected by the Constitution. #MeToo Cases’ New Legal Battleground: Defamation Lawsuits 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z So when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated impeachment proceedings against Trump last week, pro-impeachment Twitter users began making the connection between peaches and Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of the Constitution. How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z What happened that led to the 1993 Russian Constitution, which virtually made Putin inevitable? Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z This is also, of course, the view of James Madison, and it undergirds the Constitution. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z If you read my book, you will no longer have to swallow what the right or the left tells you about the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the Bill of Rights. Stan Mack’s Occupy-the-Fourth-of-July funnies 2012-07-10T00:00:00Z He faces an uphill fight against the Constitution and principled BDS advocates making their case from concert venues to university campuses. “Our art and voices matter”: The cultural boycott of Israel means we will not serve the status quo of Israeli discrimination and violence 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Penning’s Anthony is devastated when Douglass presses for the rights of blacks, in the proposed 15th Amendment to the Constitution, without demanding that women’s suffrage be written into the document, as well. Two heroes of 19th-century America seek justice. They get none in ‘The Agitators.’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z She rigorously outlines the opposition to the exercise, by black Americans, of the rights granted to all American citizens in our Constitution. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z We had nothing as stipulated as the American Constitution; our liberties derived organically, within the tradition of British Common Law. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Still, the Constitution was a stronger document than the Articles of Confederation, partly because of the census it instituted. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “It’s about the Constitution having an expiration date,” said Morgan Evans, a writer and director for MTV. Movie Cram II at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Congress approved this amendment, and by December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states ratified, or agreed to, it and nine others, adding them to the Constitution. No monument for Madison. But one of his legacies is freedom of the press. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The book will include her writing and speeches on a variety of subjects, like her Jewish identity, gender equality, interpreting the Constitution, and the way lawyers and the law are depicted in opera. Simon & Schuster to Publish Writings of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1460-03-08T05:00:00Z “There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution.” Of course Ben Carson has a campaign staff. But only one adviser truly has his ear. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Sitaraman argues that the Constitution is premised on the existence of a thriving middle class, and that the current explosion of inequality will destroy it. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z "With this lawsuit, I hope to protect my rights as afforded by the Constitution of the United States to speak the truth and report the facts about Scientology," Remini furthered. "I intend to be the last”: Leah Remini sues Church of Scientology citing "psychological torture" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Most intriguingly, however, 2215 Constitution is the only privately held property on the Mall, home to so many other museums and memorials. The curious story of the National Mall’s lone privately owned plot 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Constitution Square is a landfill of protest placards. T Magazine: A Tree Grows in Athens 2011-06-28T18:34:58Z Article II of the Constitution begins: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Style Invitational Week 1442: Same difference 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Indeed, the new Haitian Constitution in 1805 called for free and compulsory primary education at a time when such thoughts were still novel in Europe. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Because milk prices have skyrocketed under the new Constitution, ice cream makers now use cow urine. Movie Cram II at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Taft, of course, was trounced, and that decade saw four important additions to the Constitution. The Nation’s Founders, Michael J. Fox and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The language in the dissent was sweeping, arguing the Court was overreaching in the name of restraint and ignoring key structural protections in the Constitution. The Supreme Court's John Roberts Changed His Obamacare Vote in May 2012-07-01T17:01:02Z Set partly in 1989, where Ms. Schreck plays herself as a high schooler competing for scholarship money in debates about the Constitution, and partly in the present, the show has a warm and friendly tone. Enraged by Their Times, Women of Ambition Seize the Stage 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But I would not be so quick to dismiss the Constitution as “more modest” on federal power. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z We are past all that, say the peddlers of the “color-blind” Constitution. This is how they try to make America white again 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The hour or so prior to this is a physicalized wrestling display between Schreck concurring with and dissenting from the opinion of the Constitution her younger self once held. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z They say of me, the Awesome Trump, The Constitution’s what I’ll dump. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Constitution include a right of privacy encompassing abortion? Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z Lieu’s official website includes a “Cloud of Illegitimacy Clock,” tracking how long he believes Trump has been in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which prohibits government officials from accepting payments from foreign governments. Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Future officeholders won’t have to seek out a family Bible on which to swear their oath of office or to add to that oath the not-in-the Constitution phrase “so help me God.” An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z "What's interesting is you have Republicans always talking about the Constitution and we have to think about the Constitution and our Constitutional rights," she says. "The View" slams Ted Cruz for comparing peaceful abortion demonstrators to Jan. 6 insurrectionists 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The petition says the talk show host "is engaged in a hostile attack against the US Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment", which protects an individual's right to own guns. Piers Morgan faces US gun backlash 2012-12-24T16:23:07Z Constitution from lawsuits seeking damages through sovereign immunity. U.S. Supreme Court maroons filmmaker in Blackbeard video piracy fight 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Josh Chafetz is a professor at Cornell Law School and the author, most recently, of “Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers.” What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The authors’ approach to interpreting the Constitution is starkly revealed in the their treatment of Roe v. Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z She swore in her oath of office to uphold the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has decided what the Constitution says here. Your “sincerely held religious beliefs” don’t matter: County clerks must uphold the law and issue same-sex marriage licenses 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Mike Huckabee, who has refused to rule out using federal troops to stop abortion, insisted the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution actually mean abortion is illegal because “DNA schedules.” They’re all Todd Akin now: How the Planned Parenthood sting backfired on Republicans 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Gibbes, another pay-equity case, Waring explicitly overruled states’ rights, declaring that a state “cannot deprive the federal courts of jurisdiction granted them under the Constitution.” The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Upon entering, visitors are greeted by wood, rope and sails from the USS Constitution, a vessel that originally set sail in 1798. Military museums grapple with a mission that’s only getting more complex 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The copy of the Constitution is on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries until Sept. 19 and then travels to Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, before returning to New York this fall. Sotheby’s puts rare U.S. Constitution copy for auction 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z And after the 100-minute show — an account of Schreck’s childhood absorption in the Constitution, through a reenactment of the speech contests she entered — I got a chance to sit with them both. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The judges savaged Rosero, calling her conduct “repugnant to the Constitution.” Who will prosecute the corrupt prosecutors? 2013-04-03T18:26:00Z "I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I saw that the Constitution was violated on a massive scale," he added. NSA leaker Snowden tells SXSW he has no regrets 2014-03-10T23:30:37Z “Under our Constitution, there simply are not that many people who are in a position to do something about an executive branch in chaos,” Flake writes. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Steele called the Pennsylvania court's decision "a dangerous precedent," adding that it raised "issues under the Constitution's due process clause." Cosby remains free after Supreme Court declines to revisit decision that overturned his conviction 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z A longtime Eurosceptic, he helped defeat the proposed European Constitution in the 2005 referendum and has talked about the advantages of leaving the Euro. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z Those fears were still mostly beneath the surface when Ms. Schreck began addressing the theme of “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which is directed with an invisible hand by Oliver Butler. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The goal, he said, “would be to engage people in defense of democracy and our Constitution, which means engaging with Congress and their leaders to advance things or to stop things, or whatever.” Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Over guacamole and diet soda, Quinn explained that he's been working on the show for a year after becoming a new convert to how interesting the Constitution can be. Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution 2013-05-14T12:11:37Z But the United States Constitution proved to be a trickier document. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z And what about charges that the bull is trampling the Constitution? ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Unlike Wisconsin, Ohio's Constitution makes no provision for recalling elected officials. Wis. victory may give GOP a national boost 2011-08-10T11:47:00Z Does foreign law have a place in interpreting the American Constitution? Stephen Breyer’s ‘The Court and the World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z After the Revolution, evangelicals, mainly Baptists and Methodists, adopted the principle of separation of church and state and helped James Madison and Thomas Jefferson enshrine it in the first amendment to the Constitution. Why Evangelicals Support Donald Trump 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The founders knew that without a virtuous citizenry, the Constitution was a mere piece of paper and, in Madison’s words, “no theoretical checks — no form of government can render us secure.” Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Outside the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue between 21st and 23rd streets, Robert Berks’s sculpture depicts Albert Einstein seated and sandal-clad, holding a book. Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z "They overstepped the Constitution and put people in prison without a trial," she says. Ansel Adams' Manzanar photos at Bainbridge museum 2011-07-26T04:11:47Z More than two centuries after the ratification of the Constitution, the historian Joseph J. Ellis writes in his absorbing new book, “The Quartet,” “a mystic haze has formed” around that document. Review: ‘The Quartet,’ by Joseph Ellis, Details the Constitution’s Gang of Four 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays — like Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” and Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play” — that spoke meaningfully to our nation’s troubled soul. How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z There is a first edition of “Constitutions of the Several States of America,” published in 1781 and one of only 200 copies printed. Owning George Washington: The Auction 2011-04-06T21:53:42Z Conservative judges tend to focus on unearthing the meaning of the original 18th-century Constitution, which had a more modest understanding of federal power. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From John le Carré to Adam Rippon 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Harris vowed to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Perspective | American democracy finally passes the Bechdel test 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Sotheby’s announced on Friday, which also happens to be Constitution Day, that a copy of the U.S. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z “He’s a big feminist,” Ms. Hall said Tuesday night at an event to promote the Equal Rights Amendment, which would inscribe gender equality into the Constitution. Rupert Murdoch Is a ‘Big Feminist,’ Says His Wife, Jerry Hall 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Constitutions let people define and delineate power, to shape the way governance occurs and authority is exercised in their countries. Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In return for what the Constitution calls “just compensation,” property is taken for some public use or to serve a public purpose. Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “The Constitution itself is a trail of tears,” Tribe said at the restaurant. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s the first state to ratify the Constitution; often last when recalling all 50. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z So as we mark World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, we wanted to share your thoughts on whether the free-press guarantees in the Constitution were still important. On World Press Freedom Day, student shares her opinion on why a free press matters 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z One of the largest, Washington’s National Independence Day Parade, kicks off on Constitution Avenue and features marching bands, floats and giant balloons. Americans mark July 4 with fireworks, food 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Last March, he dazzled a packed DAR Constitution Hall after being presented with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Everyone wants Garth Brooks on their side. He just wants everyone to get along. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Marian Anderson — the famed black singer who was once barred from performing at Constitution Hall — sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Between Schreck, Ciprian, and Williams "What the Constitution Means to Me" becomes a hopeful vision and reminder that the Constitution a living document, but one that needs to be brought alive constantly by successive generations. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The House brief argues that “the text and structure of the Constitution, as well as its original meaning and prior interpretations by Congress, overwhelmingly demonstrate that a former official remains subject to trial and conviction.” Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he’s Trump’s impeachment attorney. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z To help you decide what to see, here are our reviews of some of the contenders: “Ain’t Too Proud,” “Hadestown,” “The Prom,” “What the Constitution Means to Me,” “Kiss Me, Kate,” “Oklahoma!,” What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Baaba Maal, the Tony Nominees, and Fufu 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The writer is a professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, and co-author of “Fault Lines in the Constitution.” Letters to the Editor 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z First state to ratify the Constitution; often last when recalling all 50. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Wine was vocal in his opposition to the regime, but after the 2015 election, when Museveni engineered an amendment to the Constitution rescinding the presidential age limit, the pop singer-turned-politician decided to run for office. ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Review: A Pop Star Turns Politician 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Constitution, and of basic U.S. institutions like freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and an independent judiciary that you only see on weekends at the racquet club. BREAKING: The Greatest Living American Writer: “I can no longer support this Trump fellow” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Constitution Day, he says, is just one more reason to have a copy of the nation’s foundational document handy. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket His death prevented him from exercising his right to a direct appeal, a right given to every American by the United States Constitution. ArtsBeat: Jim Morrison Is Pardoned in Florida 2010-12-09T21:11:00Z Constitution, a time-tested love story, or memory itself. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z "It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is," he says. Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z On the final night of the convention, Khan took the stage with his wife, Ghazala, and in an electrifying moment, he pulled from his pocket a small copy of the Constitution. What Trump Can Learn From a Gold Star Family 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z For example, he decided on his own to expand the size of the army and the navy, even though the Constitution clearly makes that a power of Congress. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z If that’s not graphic enough, he also did one of Obama lighting the Constitution on fire, and another of Obama enjoying a round of golf as a nuclear bomb detonates in the background. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z He celebrated hardness for its own sake and pursued it as an end in itself, sometimes at the expense of his Constitution. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z With that ponderous caveat in mind, I am left to ruminate on the benefits of the proposed Second Amendment to the Constitution. Second Amendment time-traveling: If only the framers could have envisioned the NRA 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z At the time few, if any, journalists pointed out to Cain that the job of the president is to support the Constitution and exercise leadership in a democracy, not to be funny. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The Constitution requires the president to be at least 35 years old, but also a “person” and a “citizen.” Pooch for president: Illinois brothers sign up black lab Bailey 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z In April, the Supreme Court began to hear arguments about one of the central requirements of the Constitution. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Dorothy’s religiously inspired politics flagrantly challenged the Enlightenment ideals of the American Constitution. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z As for why it has struck such a chord, Finn says, “Her show makes the Constitution very, very human.” ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ is coming to the Kennedy Center, with its star 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Lincoln rejected the higher law, declaring at one point that “insofar as it may attempt to foment a disobedience to the Constitution, or to the constitutional laws of the country, it has my unqualified condemnation.” Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Only Forsythe could make capital punishment seem part of the Preamble to the Constitution. Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 2010-04-03T05:20:00Z At the first event on Wednesday, which took place at a rooftop space on Constitution Avenue, the creators met with a small gathering of reporters to describe what TikTok has meant for them. TikTok Stars Go On a D.C. Field Trip 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z White favored a top-down legal and legislative strategy, maintaining faith that justice lay hidden within the courts and the Constitution, waiting to be coaxed into being by lawyers and lobbyists. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In a city where it’s tough to throw a rock without hitting a civic building, it’s easy to pass the Vermont-marble structure at 2215 Constitution Ave. without giving it a second thought. The curious story of the National Mall’s lone privately owned plot 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z They went forward with it anyway, because getting the right “number” in terms of the law’s coverage expansion was, in their view, more important than doing right by the Constitution. Democrats Pre-Emptively Second-Guess Each Other on Obamacare's Supreme Court Reckoning 2012-06-25T03:59:05Z But if “What the Constitution Means to Me” is nothing less than that, it is also very much more. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z During that time, he acted in certain ways that were clearly outside the Constitution. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z Constitution at an age when most tots can’t tell an a from a b. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z Constitution and it's never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution 2013-05-14T12:11:37Z In 2017, the association bypassed the legislature and sued the state health department, which is responsible for enforcing the ban, saying the ban violates the equal protection clause in the New Jersey Constitution. Home Cooking for Profit? Sure, Just Not in New Jersey 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Though Scalia is gone, his ideology remains ascendant, while Madison’s heirs, the proponents of a “living Constitution,” are “on the permanent defensive.” The Founders Look at Modern America 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z A decade ago, Byrd was instrumental in establishing Constitution Day when he attached an amendment designating the holiday to an appropriations bill. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket I like how you talk about the Constitution and how people act like it's some flawless holy document that wasn't created by a bunch of racist slave owners. Comedian Eric Andre: "This country's got a s**tty history" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z With that posthumous revelation, Wilentz argues, “the framers left room for political efforts aimed at slavery’s restriction, and eventually, its destruction, even under a Constitution that safeguarded slavery.” Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z She was wearing Caps pajama pants out in public Tuesday, standing on a roaring ventilation platform to view the Stanley Cup parade on Constitution Avenue. Parades are a joy and a nightmare — and somehow still the way we celebrate in 2018 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In short, Mr. Hazlitt bids us drift no longer under the spell of our old Constitution worship but remodel our government with unflinching courage. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “Americans”, Mr Hamburger writes, “must live under a dual system of government, one part established by the Constitution, and another circumventing it.” Sins of commissions 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Constitution, banning alcohol, and how the ban unraveled as people thought their personal rights were being violated. PBS' 'Prohibition' features Seattle bootlegger 2011-09-28T23:45:05Z “You, we, we. We smelly, Walmart-shopping Trump supporters, who cling to our God, our Constitution, and our Bibles.” How the president’s favorite news network covered his impeachment 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z She didn’t learn in any school about our US Constitution or our Founding Fathers’ great themes of equality--besides they didn’t apply to black folks anyway. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The CNN host Fareed Zakaria takes a look into the history of Article II, Section IV of the Constitution, which concerns impeachment. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’ and ‘Home Alone’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Many were “persons fresh from the rebel congress or from the rebel army, men who could not take the requisite oath” to uphold the Constitution, said Republican Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In 1939, after being barred from performing at Constitution Hall because she was Black, she triumphed at the Lincoln Memorial in what became a landmark moment in American history. What to watch on Monday: ‘The Crew’ on Netflix 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Constitution Center president and chief executive officer David Eisner said the exhibit provides perspectives on freedom of speech, the meaning of the American dream and the role of artists in politics and protest. Springsteen exhibit opening at Philly-based museum 2012-02-15T20:27:09Z He’s pretty busy, so I’ll just recommend a document: the Constitution of the United States. Lynne Cheney: By the Book 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “What the Constitution Means to Me” even begins in deception. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The Constitution’s admirers, of course, are already multitudinous and, as Tribe noted, include the immediate past U.S. president. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z So I’m going to remind people that without participation in our democracy, our rule of law, our government, our Constitution will remain in peril. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “Our Constitution is not a compact” of states, Marshall wrote in an anonymous pamphlet defending his own opinion upholding Congress’s power to charter the Bank of the United States. The Man Who Made the Supreme Court Supreme 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz The Roberts court is transforming the country we live in with its profound, sweeping rulings. A Little (Heavy) Light Reading 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z This is a power reserved by the Federal government in the Constitution. With Proposition 12, the Supreme Court could be ruling on more than factory farms 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The amendment, which guarantees equal protection, was the legal basis of the civil rights campaign and is the theme for the center’s annual Constitution Day celebration, Sept. 17. Learning About the Civil Rights Era Through Travel 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “I crossed it out and wrote ‘Burn the Constitution.’ ” Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z These U.S. protections, first established in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, are good for 20 years. Here’s an idea: Visit the Inventors Hall of Fame. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Barack Obama was Tribe’s assistant, back when he was a freshman at Harvard Law, and the professor recalled how much the Constitution meant to a law student destined to be a political star. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z That’s not what the Constitution provides for, and far better is to allow offensive speech — and forcefully condemn it. Perspective | To fight bigotry and hate, don’t muzzle it. There’s a better way. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “This president has attacked each of the Constitution’s safeguards against establishing a monarchy in this country,” said Michael Gerhardt, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Impeachment goes to college 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s a debate play, full of legal wonkery; audience members were handed a pocket copy of the Constitution as they came in — a gesture, not a study aide. After the Play, a Supreme Encore From Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Its future home located steps from the National Constitution Center, the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and Carpenter's Hall should benefit all the institutions through program collaborations and artifact exchanges, Stephenson said. Revolutionary treasures await new Philly museum 2012-07-11T14:09:13Z To illustrate how Americans see their Constitution, Sagal talked with people confronting issues including affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage. NPR host Sagal hits the road in 'Constitution USA' 2013-05-07T19:26:09Z “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Alito wrote. Perspective | The abortions we didn’t have 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Jan Neuharth, the Freedom Forum’s chair and chief executive, joined the Constitution Center’s board of trustees after making the gift, Rosen said. Newseum donates its distinctive First Amendment facade to Philadelphia history center 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Delegates, however, also generally agreed that the new Constitution gave the federal government no power to regulate or control slavery in the states. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z In fact, they pretty much wrote the Constitution with him in mind. Tale of a traitor: Is the famous betrayal of Benedict Arnold echoed in Michael Flynn? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z This bears repeating: “Do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.” Civilities: Roberts and Scalia are sore losers. Just ask Nixon, Trump or Gen. Robert E. Lee. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Constitution, and ABC News Correspondent Martha Raddatz said she was a living example of the power of words and the power of a free press. Noble prize winner Malala Yousafzai renews call for education for all 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z You write that it is essential to create an “accurate picture of what freedom of religion meant at the time of the framing” of the Constitution. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z In January 2017, two weeks after she held her hand on a Bible and swore to protect and defend the Constitution, she showed up on the Mall to watch Donald Trump do the same. Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z It's not MAGA, because it had great aspirations and great things written in our Constitution and great ideas and great people, but not for everybody. Women's empowerment is not "kicking ass in bikinis": Julie Taymor on what real feminism looks like 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z May 17 Celebration of Norway’s Constitution Day; children’s activities, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and Nordic Cafe, 3:30-5:30 p.m., May 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z Readers will encounter few familiar signposts like the Boston Massacre or the Constitution, and relatively little analysis of treaties and laws. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Not only does Schreck genuinely seek to understand the spirit of the Constitution, she believes in its possibilities despite its many imperfections . . . because the problem isn't necessarily the document itself. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution guarantee every Indian equality of citizenship and equality before the law; Article 25 guarantees freedom of faith and belief; and Article 19, freedom of expression and association. India is on its way to becoming a Hindu nation, suppressing multiculturalism 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z A 2009 survey from Newsweek showed that a majority of U.S. citizens didn’t know even basic facts about American government—like what the Constitution does—so the problem is that we don’t know anyone’s history. Don’t rewrite LGBT history: If we erase the truths of our past struggles, we’re doomed to repeat them 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The Constitution gives Congress the power to “establish an uniform rule of naturalization” and says federal law “shall be the supreme law of the land.” High Court to take on Ariz. immigration law 2012-04-25T10:05:00Z An ICE official told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that when Abraham-Joseph was arrested in 2014, ICE was not aware of his immigration status. Rapper 21 Savage being held unfairly, attorneys claim 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Constitution says citizens have the right to bear arms in order to maintain organized militias. Jason Alexander’s amazing gun rant 2012-07-22T20:38:00Z Almost two centuries ago Calhoun wrote that “the states must have the power really intended by the Constitution, in order, not to destroy, but to save the Constitution and the Union.” John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “We may disagree about politics, but we are united in our devotion to the Constitution and the First Amendment.” Newseum donates its distinctive First Amendment facade to Philadelphia history center 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z It is “unlikely to change anyone’s mind about Snowden, but when it comes to privacy and speech and the Constitution, his story clarifies the stakes.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z A decade later, in “Fiasco,” we see a transitional period, as the minimal fallout for Reagan from Iran-contra begins to normalize the White House’s trampling of the Constitution. Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The organization has a track record of producing influential work, including its biggest hit, “Rent,” as well as celebrated productions such as “Hadestown,” “Once,” “Slave Play” and “What the Constitution Means to Me.” New York Theater Workshop Announces New Artistic Director’s First Season 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Constitution, believing the semi- sacred document speaks for itself as it offers timeless values above partisan politics. 'The Oath': Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court 2012-10-04T19:59:04Z Representatives should not be comfortable and at ease because defending the Constitution requires uncomfortable, difficult decisions. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi’s pin at the impeachment debate was a declaration: The republic will survive this 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Robin discerns three main themes in Thomas’s jurisprudence — race, capitalism and Constitution — and he maps these points to three periods in Thomas’s life. ‘The Enigma of Clarence Thomas’ Makes a Strong Case for Its Provocative Thesis 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z United States, Holmes “single-handedly” laid the groundwork for modern constitutional protection of freedom of speech and a year later “inaugurated” the metaphor of the living Constitution. Reading Between the Lines: in the Law, in Therapy, in True Crime 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It isn’t an official government document, like the 1776 parchment, but a display copy created in the mid-1780s, the researchers argue, by someone who wanted to influence debate over the Constitution. A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z This awareness informed the discussion of the Constitution. Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z This collection of speeches and writings by the famously argumentative Supreme Court justice, who died in February 2016, offers a clear picture of his originalist interpretation of the Constitution. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z He talks about the Constitution, citizenship and freedom. Top 10 Hollywood presidents we would rather have in the White House right now 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z The Constitution is clear, Shipler argues: "Our system is founded on the premise that it is far worse to convict wrongly than to fail to convict at all." David Shipler's 'The Rights of the People': the erosion of American rights in the name of security 2011-05-12T19:22:03Z A renewed Constitution Gardens would be the Mall’s first monument to the land. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In our national body politic, we look to the Constitution as our brain, but the Declaration of Independence is our soul. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z She called the United States Constitution “a living, warm-blooded, steamy document.” Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z In “The Crooked Path to Abolition,” James Oakes recounts how antislavery Northerners, including Lincoln, insisted that the Constitution was ultimately on their side. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z But there is no color line in the Constitution. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z As the show’s title reminds us, Scalia was an originalist, arguing that the Constitution must be interpreted as it would have been by the men who wrote it. After the Play, a Supreme Encore From Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “We have to be the power. That’s what Thurgood Marshall was. He was a guy who fulfilled the promise of the Constitution.” It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Delbanco traces how the compromises of the Constitution, along with the long history of compromise in the century that followed, tried to paper over a violent reality, disguising a moral issue as a technical one. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Constitutions apart, it is only a citizen-wide "mockery" of the contemptible NRA, and its reactions to the Newtown murders, which will eventually bring the necessary change. Letters: Sacred text and satire 2012-12-25T21:00:03Z The comparatively subdued holidays of Showa Day and Constitution Memorial Day — designed to encourage reflection on Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s postwar constitutional order, respectively — are nonetheless draws for history buffs. Celebrating ‘Platinum Week’ in Japan 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The first secretary of the Treasury who masterminded our financial system, Hamilton was the most prolific author of the Federalist Papers, the series of essays defending the Constitution. 'Hamilton' brings its tale of American idealism to L.A. at a moment when it's needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z "To condone the whittling away of the rights of any one minority group," Ickes declares, "is to pave the way for us all to lose the guarantees of the Constitution." Ansel Adams' 'lost' book about Manzanar 2011-07-20T22:34:04Z Ah, the classic American dilemma, choosing between one’s job and the Constitution. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Over the past several weeks, we’ve been watching the saga of Kim Davis, the world’s most defiantly determined not to uphold the Constitution county clerk in America, unfold. Sweet Cakes owners refusing to pay damages to gay couple 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He mapped out a timeline in which Lincoln was shot in 1861, before his inauguration, and slavery was permanently enshrined in the Constitution. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Such discomfort is impairing our very ability to live to our very fullest — a right guaranteed in the Constitution!* Opiate for the Masses: The dog days are here again with “Puppy Bowl,” “Spy in the Wild” and a famous kitten 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z How do you explain that for 13 years there was an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that said you couldn’t get a drink legally? Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z Something called the Shut It Down Movement has millions of followers clamoring to toss out the Constitution and pretty much get rid of the federal government. Review | Set during presidential primary season, ‘Oppo’ is about as timely as political thrillers come 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z As she progressed, Giffords learned to talk again, completing phrases from the Constitution and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. AP Exclusive: Giffords vows return to Congress 2011-11-04T17:36:10Z It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Along with an illumination of how prejudicial interpretations of these clauses failed them both — and particularly, of women facing physical attack by men — there are moments of poetic insight into how the Constitution works. Review | Seeing Broadway’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ feels like a patriotic act. Here’s why. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “All of us are looking to tell a fuller story,” said Vince Stango, chief operating officer of the National Constitution Center. In Philadelphia, George Washington Slept Here — and Here 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In “Constitution,” at the Helen Hayes Theater, Ms. Schreck plays herself at 15, addressing an American Legion hall full of men. Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z While most people think they know more about the Constitution than they do, Sagal said, they all share a firm belief in it. NPR host Sagal hits the road in 'Constitution USA' 2013-05-07T19:26:09Z Constitution, Hirsi Ali consistently demonstrates both galling hypocrisy and a stupefying lack of self-awareness. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z More and more people are beginning to view guns as symbols of liberty because of a carelessly-worded Second Amendment in the Constitution of the United States. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Constitution is one of the most popular books in the country. Pocket Constitution becomes bestseller after Khizr Khan's convention speech 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z That would be the confounding, cohesive and divisive document that is the United States Constitution. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Constitution as a punishment for a prank he pulled, United States Courts reports. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The Constitution State follows several other states to pass legislation that bans discriminating against an individual based on hairstyle or hair texture. Connecticut passes CROWN Act to ban discrimination against natural hair 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The Minnesota congresswoman tweeted thanks to Fox for its condemnation, saying no one should question a person’s commitment to the Constitution because of a person’s faith or country of origin. Minnesota politician thanks Fox for condemning Jeanine Pirro 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “It was only the creation of the Constitution in 1787 that made these disparate citizens into Americans.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The Constitution, representing the whole nation, offers a even neater overlap. A Brief History of Oaths and Books 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Constitution top to bottom, all seven articles and 27 amendments, the preamble and the closing endorsement, sometime in his life. Style Invitational Week 1293: Constitutional unconvention 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The room is built under the plaza space that extends to Constitution Avenue, and from the outside the oculus is contained within a curious circular structure wrapped in a continuous bench. Perspective | The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z No, this was one of those subversive and eye-opening new experiences that is likely to remain provocative for years, at least until the Constitution gets amended — or we do. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Now, he is a presidential candidate for the Constitution Party. ‘Coal Country’ Review: Songs and Stories in a Disaster’s Aftermath 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The Declaration of Independence specifically repudiated monarchy, and the Constitution was intended to negate any possibility of power passing to a Caligula, a Richard III, or a Joffrey Baratheon. Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Expect numerous mentions of Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution, especially on whether Trump’s own words and actions meet the vague threshold of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” ‘Sad day’ or ‘scam’? What to watch at impeachment hearing 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z In a slow yet powerful cadence, Mr. King analyzes the unfulfilled promise of the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation. Museums Special Section: Golden Age of Discovery ... Down in the Basements 2014-03-19T20:40:34Z The election, he said, would not change the fact that “the Republic established by America’s founders is probably gone” — kicked aside by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, “the little law that ate the Constitution.” Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The Constitution sets out a 35-word oath for the new president. An inauguration unlike any other amid a pandemic, unrest 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z LeVine swore on the Constitution rather than on the Bible, but more than this distinguishes her case from the other two. A Brief History of Oaths and Books 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z “We believe that the Court of Appeals will agree that the U.S. Constitution bars state court actions while the president is in office,” the firm said in a statement. Court freezes woman’s defamation suit against Trump 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Both are such impressive representatives of their generation that you will leave the Helen Hayes a little more optimistic, knowing that the Constitution means so much to them. Review | Seeing Broadway’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ feels like a patriotic act. Here’s why. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “We have no doubt that you love our country and respect our Constitution,” he wrote. Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The right to privacy is enshrined in the Hawaii state Constitution, Slom said. Hawaii Senate votes on Steven Tyler Act 2013-03-05T19:24:28Z Pence, for his part, says it came down to his own reverence for the Constitution. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Except that the quote was from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution; and even worse, Limbaugh got it wrong anyway. Rush Limbaugh’s toxic patriotism will be his worst legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Like “Constitution,” it was an unusually provoking show for Broadway. How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Camera operators walked backward for the half-mile stroll across the Union Station plaza, down Delaware Avenue and up Constitution Avenue, calling out obstacles to prevent any falls. Lev Parnas, barred from impeachment trial, makes himself its star anyway 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Walking down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., members of my little squadron kept gleefully pointing out signs and costumes to one another. The Much-Needed Humor of the Women’s March 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Doors open 45 minutes prior to the event’s start, on Constitution Avenue. Newport Jazz Festival turns 60 this year with a seminar and film screening The Constitution lists three requirements: You must be at least 35 years old, have been a U.S. resident for at least 14 years and be a “natural-born citizen” of the United States. Campaign 2016: Understanding the presidential election 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z There were multiple odes to forgotten founder William Richardson Davie, the onetime governor of North Carolina who argued fiercely for an impeachment provision in drafts of the Constitution. Impeachment goes to college 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In posing that question, the game pokes at some ugly history and suggests that our country would be less, shall we say, Edenic if the Constitution actually were holy writ. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z This was virtually the opposite of the more laborious later process of drafting the Constitution – and look how that turned out! Two cheers for the Declaration of Independence: The weird, contradictory and radical vision of human equality that America couldn’t handle 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z We, of course, then sense our own, particularly as Ms. Schreck outlines the role that individual Supreme Court justices have played in interpreting the Constitution, establishing or eliminating rights in the process. Enraged by Their Times, Women of Ambition Seize the Stage 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Kiffer estimated that there were several hundred copies of the Constitution made originally. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z One of the most radical parts of the Constitution said that no one had to take a religious oath to serve in government. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z This time he stressed the importance of freedom of religion, enshrined in the Constitution’s First Amendment. In Philadelphia, Pope Francis challenges Americans to live up to nation’s ideals 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z There is nothing in the Constitution’s formal operation that can prevent this. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The proximate cause of his blues is a smug Barack Obama, who appears in the scene with arms folded as he steps on the first page of the Constitution. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Key knew that such disputes over slavery, race, and the meaning of the Constitution were not new, but in the 1820s, they’d begun to divide the nation. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the Constitution, it turned out, or economic liberty, or the national debt, or whatever. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Grizzard, who wrote a newspaper column for The Atlanta Constitution before moving on to books and live comedy, praised the nuance of Southern speech in a proudly cranky style. Critic’s Notebook: The Original Blue Collar Comedy Tour Stars 2013-05-17T20:33:55Z "The burning Constitution represents a Constitution that is on fire." The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The Constitution was really being tested, many times more than we knew. Journalist Elizabeth Drew on Nixon and this year’s presidential candidates 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, Donald Trump floated the idea of terminating the Constitution. Trevor Noah Takes on Trump’s Attempt to Terminate the Constitution 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Nelson doesn’t care how people use their pocket Constitutions. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket In a statement, Carter’s attorney Howard Srebnick said a pardon was appropriate since “prosecuting a non-violent citizen for merely possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.” Lil Wayne, Kodak Black get clemency; Joe Exotic does not 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z I’m all for the Constitution and a woman’s right to choose what she wears, but I’m having some trouble applying my principles to my actual daughters. The Daughter Dress Code 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead, the Constitution handed control over elections to state and local governments. Why the Right to Vote Is Not a Right 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Their role is to be her opposition in a rousing debate over the question of whether the Constitution should be kept, or abolished and rewritten to be truly egalitarian. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Constitution Center officials say the Philadelphia showing is the only scheduled stop for the exhibit. Springsteen exhibit slated for Pa. national museum 2011-10-26T21:03:17Z He disdains what he calls the “Control+F” theory, which holds that because the Constitution does not mention education, constitutional law has little to say on the matter. The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z "He is a mensch and a warm human being," said Montgomery, who praised Lear's "gut sense of right and wrong, and his gut sense of what the Constitution means, and what is important about America." Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were signed, the 78-year-old pontiff reminded Americans, “it was here, that the freedoms which define this country were first proclaimed.” In Philadelphia, Pope Francis challenges Americans to live up to nation’s ideals 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Many of them cite patriotism as their reason – true patriots support the Constitution adamantly and wholly. Jason Alexander’s amazing gun rant 2012-07-22T20:38:00Z It’s the terse amendment that says rights outlined in the Constitution “shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z This explains why LeVine was able to swear over the Constitution rather than the Bible, which is a much more common choice. A Brief History of Oaths and Books 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z The prosecutors’ indictment even cites violations of Orthodox Church rules and practices, which is outrageous for a country whose Article 14 of the Constitution clearly states that the government is secular. Pussy Riot denied bail 2012-07-10T21:20:00Z Washington made notations in the margin of the Constitution and bracketed passages pertaining to the president's duties. 1789 Acts of Congress to be auctioned in NYC 2012-04-24T16:31:20Z He is the prophetic scourge of our “regulation-crazed Great Society” in which deep state “whippersnapper” civil servants have usurped the legislative power that the Constitution gave to Congress alone. How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Several State Department clerks, for instance, stuffed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other important papers into book bags that a clerk hid in Leesburg, Virginia. 200 years ago, the British set D.C. ablaze “Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution,” the U.S. Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z In 1939, the opera singer Marian Anderson, the “colored contralto,” was refused a performance space at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., so she performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial instead. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Uncertainty manifested itself in a complicated stance, sometimes fostering democracy and at others sticking to the letter of the Constitution. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “We know this was a violation of the Constitution.” 32 years after a horrific murder, one man wants justice. Another just wants an ending. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z A version of the E.R.A., which would have amended the United States Constitution to legally codify equality between women and men, was first introduced in Congress in 1923. ‘Mrs. America’ Depicts a Different Kind of Feminist: The Anti- Kind 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Leonor, who is heir to the Spanish throne, deposited a copy of Spain’s Constitution and Miguel de Cervantes’ classic “Don Quixote” in the institute’s literary vault, where it stores Spanish-language literary treasures. Spain’s Princess Leonor presides 1st event without parents 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z His new motto: The Lord, and the Constitution, work in mysterious ways. Bad performances before Congress seem contagious 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z But the federal government’s authority, under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution and the 16th Amendment’s power to generate revenue for federal projects, affected far more than rivers. Three Authors See Water, Water Everywhere, for Better and Worse 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z For a generation of conservative law students, Scalia was a paragon of a judicial philosophy centered on reverence for the original text of the Constitution. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The Constitution says Congress has the power to "regulate commerce" and to impose taxes to promote the general welfare. Possible trouble ahead for insurance mandate 2012-03-27T15:20:00Z The audience listens closely as a baffled and increasingly bitter Hirabayashi tries to reassure himself that the Constitution really means what it says. Review | When U.S. citizenship is anything but self-evident 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z ABC executives seem to consider Spelling a founding father of network drama, because they approach the original “Charlie’s Angels” like strict constructionists amending the Constitution. Television Review: ?Prime Suspect? and ?Charlie?s Angels? - TV Review 2011-09-21T22:59:11Z This a First Amendment award. You are being honored in the name of the American Constitution. Bill Maher speaks his truth: “I have never, in my entire 23 years on television, tried to offend people” 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Smith responded to Department of Interior: Nothing in the pending Constitutional Amendment will substantively alter in any manner whatsoever existing rules under the 1976 Constitution governing citizenship in the Cherokee Nation. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z It rejected the very idea that Scott was a legal person under the Constitution with standing to sue in the first place. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Watching the show, I found myself wondering: Is “What the Constitution Means to Me” a play? Heidi Schreck’s Play About the U.S. Constitution Offers an Oasis of Sanity 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z North of that is the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit museum and event space dedicated to what is perhaps America’s most argued-about document. In Philadelphia, George Washington Slept Here — and Here 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The Constitution’s emoluments clause prevents the president from profiting from the U.S. government or any of its states. Jill Biden returns to the classroom, live and in person 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It is alluded to in amendments to the United States Constitution. Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z Wilentz’s revealing and passionately argued book contends that the American Constitution was less racist than many have thought, and that the nation’s founding document contained a fundamental antislavery ideal built into it. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The actress and women’s rights activist says the amendment would put women on equal footing under the Constitution. Milano celebrates first House ERA hearing in over 30 years 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Now and then when the courtroom doors swing open, you see a juror glance over longingly as if he might hitch a piggyback ride out to Constitution Avenue. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z The foundation considered several sites throughout the country before deciding that the Constitution Center was the best fit. Newseum donates its distinctive First Amendment facade to Philadelphia history center 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z It is, at its big and hungry heart, a record of one woman’s very particular affair with the Constitution — from early infatuation to bad romance to complicated breakup. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Whereas Roosevelt was a transformative president, believing himself empowered to do anything not specifically prohibited by the Constitution or other law, Taft espoused a more limited view of the office. ‘William Howard Taft’ Review: Taking the Bully Out of the Pulpit 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Exhibits highlight the writing of the Constitution as well as issues that were to shape the fledgling nation — slavery, migration and immigration. This interactive museum outside Williamsburg, Va., brings the American Revolution to life 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It allowed the show to portray him as affable and harmless, someone who would insert the word “yuge” into the Constitution if elected. “SNL” normalized Casey Affleck: A year after Trump, letting another sexual abuser host sends a bad message to women 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “If this law were to go into effect, librarians could face jail time for failing to take actions that flagrantly violate the U.S. Constitution and Arkansas Constitution.” Group Challenges Arkansas Law That Would Criminalize Access to Some Books 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z If you want a laugh with your education, the display named “Nests,” on the Constitution Avenue side of the Natural History Museum, offers vastly upscaled re-creations of nests, conveying the immense design variety between species. Perspective | An added virtue of habitat gardens: They’re pleasing to humans, too 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z I find nothing in the Constitution prohibiting a nonhuman from running. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Tom Hanks (as Mister Rogers) ... and other perfect swing candidates. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Popular books about the Constitution are something of a countercyclical phenomenon. What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z As he attempted to convince Northern voters that he was defending the Constitution, Johnson traded insults with hecklers and embarrassed his supporters. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Given the Constitution’s restrictions, what did opponents of slavery think could be done? Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z On the contrary, it was the Constitution that inspired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion. Civilities: Roberts and Scalia are sore losers. Just ask Nixon, Trump or Gen. Robert E. Lee. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Congress imposed military rule throughout the South to create new civilian governments that protected black voting rights and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Ongoing at the National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets NW. National Museum of African Art brings us the sounds of a Nigerian market 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z And, he added, we are here to “follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the Constitution and present the truth to the American people.” Perspective | Senate press restrictions have an ugly goal: Putting distance between the public and Trump’s impeachment trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z This led to talk of religion in the schools, the Constitution and his views on gun laws. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z Given that, it seems fair to wonder: What kinds of lessons are our tax dollars supporting at these schools spared the scrutiny of Big Government and the burdens of the Constitution? 7 absurd things America’s kids are learning thanks to conservatives 2014-03-04T13:00:00Z Activities include birding on Theodore Roosevelt Island and a bat count at Constitution Gardens on the Mall in Washington. Young science lovers needed for BioBlitz 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z At the start of our conversation you said that you can't break the Constitution, but there have certainly been a lot of arguments that it is bowing a whole lot right now. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z He said the Constitution puts limits on federal power, and those limits would be erased if federal authorities could require the purchase of products. Justices signal trouble for healthcare law 2012-03-27T17:10:00Z The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has repeatedly, in recent weeks, denounced the movie’s treatment of the veteran reporter, who broke the news that the FBI was focusing on Jewell in the investigation. Atlanta newspaper sues Clint Eastwood over film's portrayal of reporter 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The fact that it comes pocket-size, is affordable and is a fairly common Capitol Hill accessory speaks to the very heart of the Constitution itself. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket The tension between the Senate and the House, the efforts to prevent the rise of a monarch, the aims of the Constitution all felt timely, and very captivating. New & Noteworthy, From RuPaul to a Nine-Dish Meal 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, and reserved privacy to a citizen’s person, home and property; the 4th Amendment prohibits illegal search and seizure. Four ways your privacy is being invaded 2012-09-11T13:44:00Z In an op-ed, the Washington Post argued that new steps were needed to protect the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which were then kept in wooden cabinets at the old State Department. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z He was heralded as a hero until he became the focus of the FBI investigation, a fact that was first made public in the Atlanta Journal Constitution before getting picked up across the country. Stop defending an irresponsible movie and start apologising | Benjamin Lee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z At the moment, you’re trying to turn the Constitution into a comic. R. Sikoryak’s “Get the Picture” 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z There are also Christian nationalist think tanks, such as Michael Peroutka’s Institute on the Constitution, that peddle books and courses to self-taught advocates on how to “defend against those in opposition to God’s Word.” Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z We do live in a country that abides by laws and a Constitution, and nobody ought to be above them. Perspective | Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Jefferson was elated, though some critics alleged the Constitution didn't strictly allow for a president to purchase foreign soil. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z They had created a “Constitution that made freedom the rule and slavery the exception.” Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It is not by accident that the Bank of England, the mother ship of modern central banking, dates to 1694 and the so-called Glorious Revolution, which set the British Constitution in its modern form. How Much Power Does the Federal Reserve Have? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z He declared, “That resolves these cases,” firmly slapping the Constitution down on the table. A dramatic re-enactment of Scalia’s absurd marriage equality dissent — now with more “mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie!” 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z That reality is “at the heart of modern free-press protection under our Constitution,” he said. Perspective | CNN punished three journalists for missteps on a Trump-Russia story. Did it overreact? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z She was appearing at the invitation of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to bend its whites-only policy for performers at Constitution Hall. Marian Anderson’s vocal artistry honored in new CD bonanza 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The United States Constitution isn’t a book, so I would pick “The Road to Character,” by David Brooks. James B. Comey: By the Book 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z As Thomas Paine put it, “A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.” Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Q: You have repeated in almost every talk that you’ve given about your love for country, your reverence for the Constitution. Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Gathered at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, the GOP presidential hopefuls were quizzed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer on foreign policy topics. Republicans urge stronger anti-terrorism laws 2011-11-23T02:25:00Z She added that being Muslim doesn’t mean a person doesn’t support the Constitution. Fox’s Pirro back on-air after remarks on Muslim politician 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Originally called the State House bell, the bell that symbolizes liberty in Philadelphia and around the world is located across from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were both debated and signed. Can you plan a 2017 vacation with a 40-year-old travel guide? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The only self-evident truth in the Constitution is that it was the work of a committee who haggled over every word. Two cheers for the Declaration of Independence: The weird, contradictory and radical vision of human equality that America couldn’t handle 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z They were using the three-word chant to invoke a peaceful transition of power, the foundation on which the Constitution and the country are built. Perspective | This crowd of RBG fans showed Trump what law and order really sounds like 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Patrick Henry said he “smelt a rat” when he noted, as Wilentz explains, the “absence in the Constitution of any categorical guarantee to the slaveholders of their rights to property in man.” Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The Constitution speaks of IP in terms of promoting "progress of science and the useful arts." Was Andy Warhol's portrait of Prince copyright infringement? How this case could reshape IP law 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Subsequent McNaughtons include paintings of Obama burning the Constitution, cheerily golfing as an atom bomb goes off behind him, and otherwise misbehaving. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z We got through many and varied assaults on the Constitution and the rule of law after Watergate. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z “So, basically, it held trash spanning from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.” A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z There is a certain time, maybe once a year, when a confluence of astrological events and a to-do list that rivals the Constitution reduces my attention span to near nothing. ‘American Housewife’: Cracked women who will crack you up 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Sure, he said he’d consider a Democrat, if they could find one that stood strong on all parts of the Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Is Ben Carson the worst or the best surrogate of all time? Yes. 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But recent tweaks to Uzbekistan's Constitution have served only to fuel the speculation about her potential succession to the presidency. Uzbek first daughter looks for love, gets none 2011-09-15T12:46:08Z Today, the president took it a step further, energizing even more wannabe #MAGAbomber types with his threat to defy the Constitution and end birthright citizenship. Trump’s pro-white, pro-fear rhetoric will keep fueling — and radicalizing — angry men 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Even after ratification of the 14th Amendment, Jim Crow laws kept huge swaths of citizens from enjoying the legal protection the Constitution is meant to provide. Bogus Populism and Bad Music 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z After all, religious freedom is enshrined in our Constitution, right there in the First Amendment. Radical right, radical hypocrisy: Same-sex marriage masterstroke exposes extremist agenda 2014-04-29T11:43:00Z "Most Americans say the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God." Faith in America isn't dead: 'Strong thread of spirituality' in nation, new survey finds 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Peroutka claimed that the only valid laws are ones which adhere to this fundamentalist vision of the Constitution and the Bible. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Under the Constitution, the president's second term begins Jan. 20 at noon, but he'll be sworn in privately at the White House - with limited media coverage - since inaugural celebrations traditionally aren't held on Sundays. Obama holding 2 inaugural balls, least in 60 years 2012-12-20T22:10:45Z Mr. George writes: In "America's Unwritten Constitution," Akhil Reed Amar, a commendably unorthodox and, in some ways, iconoclastic constitutional scholar at Yale Law School, bucks dominant opinions on both sides of the political spectrum. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 'America's Unwritten Constitution' 2012-12-21T16:00:28Z Creationists have an endless store of creative ways to get around the Constitution and the courts when it comes to replacing legitimate biology education with fundamentalist Christian dogma. 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s school children 2013-03-13T16:34:00Z Constitution by requiring Americans to obtain insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. Obama healthcare law faces high court hearing 2012-03-23T11:20:00Z It’s possible that this bracing book will prod young readers to get involved in amendment-making, in order to form a more perfect Constitution. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But, he argued, when it comes to the law, there is “no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But the appropriation of public argument in these works, and the discourse on statecraft in “Constitution,” “Republic” and “Kristina Wong,” work on another level, too. When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Constitution, logged onto the state’s website and downloaded the necessary forms. Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn’t seem so preposterous 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Sasse responds that he believes a majority of Nebraskans — perhaps even a majority of Republicans — share his concerns about Trump’s disregard for the Constitution and various temperamental issues. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Nowhere do these words exist in the Constitution, that is, until after the Civil War, with ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Some of them were Southern loyalists; others were Democrats who strictly adhered to a reading of the Constitution that privileged states' rights above federal powers. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “In this polarized time in America, the text of the Constitution and the First Amendment in particular are the words that unite us,” he said. Newseum donates its distinctive First Amendment facade to Philadelphia history center 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z It has always reflected the promise and prejudices of our country, and its story drives to the heart of the Constitution—indeed, to its very first three words. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It goes back to things like the three-fifths clause in the Constitution. Birtherism and America’s history of white supremacy: What we can’t let ourselves forget about Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z They have a total disregard for our laws and Constitution. The new documentary “Trapped” takes viewers to the bloodiest battlefield in the American “war on women” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In this carefully and rigorously argued book, Oakes describes how the antislavery movement used the federal Constitution to buttress its cause, emphasizing every provision and every clause that could be used on behalf of abolition. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The best section of the book is probably the last, about the trespasses against the United States Constitution committed by the National Security Agency. In ‘Pay Any Price,’ James Risen Examines the War on Terror 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z While the Constitution mainly called for the return of runaway slaves, the 1850 law vastly expanded the authority of federal law enforcement officials. A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z And Conway is fiercely protective of the Constitution, which he feels Trump has repeatedly violated. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z For the longest part, we were a White nation, and our laws said so and our Constitution was interpreted to reinforce that. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Constitution, whose free speech clause is narrower than the clause in New York’s constitution. New York City can limit art vendors in popular parks: appeals court 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z But Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said the “Tonight Show” bit was free speech protected by the United States Constitution and “satirical in nature.” ArtsBeat: Man Sues Jay Leno Over Joke That Offended Sikhs 2012-01-25T14:24:09Z First published in 1952 and now in its eighth edition, it presents many of the seminal documents of American history, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Marshall Plan, with Professor Heffner’s commentary. Richard D. Heffner, Host of ‘The Open Mind,’ Dies at 88 2013-12-20T04:18:54Z The following year, as the orchestra performed in Philadelphia, the concert was transmitted live over telephone lines to an audience at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Stokowski sleuth tracks past for Philly Orchestra 2012-12-21T16:25:17Z “Our country was founded on the written word, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,” she said. The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z At the end of each performance, Schreck faced one of two poised New York high school debaters over whether the Constitution should be kept or abolished. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Review: Pursuits of Happiness 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z And when Seth Ackerman, a graduate student at Cornell University, turned in a scathing analysis of the Constitution’s inherent conservatism for the second issue, Mr. Sunkara knew it needed something to really pop. Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z Holland, Holmes inaugurated the metaphor of the living Constitution. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z I've known for years that I wanted to write a piece about my experience traveling the country, giving speeches about the Constitution as a teenager. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z His father, who is also retired, was a history and psychology teacher at Constitution High School in Philadelphia. Josh Panken, Josh Stanton 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z As Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote in the 1857 decision, the framers of the Constitution believed that blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Constitution to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex. The Met Gala is full of rich people. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a dress with a message: “Tax the Rich.” 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Just a few decades earlier it was unthinkable that sexual rights could be protected by the Constitution. How porn became a civil right 2012-11-25T01:00:00Z Constitution Day means swift business for Idahoan Zeldon Nelson, a farmer who spends his down time packing and shipping pocket Constitutions. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket In the summer of 1866, just months after U.S. lawmakers amended the Constitution to bar slavery, the Cherokee Nation entered into a treaty with the federal government. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z And hey, I thought the Constitution was supposed to protect our public school students from overtly religious instruction. A prom’s sexist posters get shot down 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z She knew this already, but her visit to the National Constitution Center and a stop at the National Archives in Washington last month confirmed it. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Although this question is, of course, totally counterfactual, the answer is obvious: the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Elaine Pagels: By the Book 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Onstage, she revisits her family’s history of domestic violence—and the way that the Constitution has failed to protect women’s bodies and rights, along with those of ethnic and sexual minorities. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps most depressingly, Caldwell’s account, even if one accepts its cramped view of the Constitution and its one-eyed moral bookkeeping, leads nowhere. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Over the years, amendments to the Constitution and laws passed by Congress have addressed the issue. To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The founders signed on to a godless Constitution and did not require presidents to pass any religious test. They’ll always lose the culture wars: The right loves fighting lost causes– but liberals keep winning 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z As the Atlanta Journal Constitution noted this week, “Only a few years ago, Stage IV melanoma was tantamount to a death sentence.” Jimmy Carter’s cancer treatment saved my life, too 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Constitution, enlivening its meaning with their feet and their voices. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z This rather brilliantly obviates the need for an amendment dumping the Electoral College from the Constitution. Why doesn’t anyone know we’re incredibly close to replacing the Electoral College with the popular vote? 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Constitution and the Constitution of the Confederacy demonstrates their remarkable similarity, he said, except for a reference to God, a six-year presidency and an explicit right to hold slaves as property. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z And then I tell him the great thing about our Constitution. From ‘rage aria’ to ‘lovely duet,’ opera does justice to court, Ginsburg says 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “In our case, it does start with the context of 1787, but we want to bring that all the way forward to today, educating people about the Constitution.” In Philadelphia, George Washington Slept Here — and Here 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z As she notes, women’s “bodies had been left out of the Constitution from the beginning.” Enraged by Their Times, Women of Ambition Seize the Stage 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The same-sex-marriage oral arguments at the Supreme Court Tuesday revealed a lot about the way our eight robed justices approach the Constitution and marriage equality in the modern age. Jon Stewart tears into Supreme Court’s “anti-gay cray-cray”: “Marriage has almost never not been changing” 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Recognizing our fallen nature, the framers of the American Constitution charted a government that would “rationally manage” our inherent sinfulness. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Even before impeachment, Douglass was explaining to audiences how Johnson exploited the “defects” in the Constitution that allowed a “bad and wicked president” to assume “kingly powers.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The moot question is: How different would a “Hindu state” look from an India based on what it is today, the Indian Constitution? India is on its way to becoming a Hindu nation, suppressing multiculturalism 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The fugitive slave clause might have been enshrined in the Constitution, but it initially proved difficult to enforce. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He went back and reread such core U.S. documents as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and The Federalist Papers, and spent time pondering key events in American history. The story behind the new book 'We Are America' 2011-05-28T03:13:05Z In the play, Ms. Schreck revisited her personal history of giving presentations about the Constitution as a high school student. What ‘The Constitution’ Meant to Two Teenage Performers 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Though the language itself was race-neutral, like many of the rights set forth in the Constitution, the patent system didn’t apply for black Americans born into slavery. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In November 2004, Oregon voters approved an amendment to the State Constitution that made it state policy to recognize only marriages between one man and one woman. After 20 Years, ‘We Never Stopped Being Married’ 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Then he read more about Alexander Hamilton, the orphaned Caribbean immigrant who became a top aide to George Washington during the American Revolution, an architect of the Constitution and founder of our national banking system. Two boys take their shot at getting kids hooked on Hamilton 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Wherefore, the President’s “Do us a favor, though” is not bribery but simply bad behavior, and the Constitution is attenuated right before our eyes. “Arrogate” and Other Pesky Impeachment Words 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z From 2005-9, he served as counsel for the Constitution for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kathleen McCann, Frank Scaturro 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z “What the Constitution Means to Me” is one of the things we always say we want theater to be: an act of civic engagement. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Republicans eager to preserve the filibuster have talked about it with such reverence that it’s easy to forget it only appeared after all of the Constitution’s framers had died. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z She has Carrie quell concerns that her administration is about to overstep the Constitution in an effort to hunt down anyone connected to the assassination attempt — and then the president does just that. Surprise! The twists in the “Homeland” season 6 finale pay off 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “When I find it — the original meaning of the Constitution — I am handcuffed,” he insists. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The power to change those things, supposedly vouchsafed to us in the Constitution, has migrated somewhere else. Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z A news release explains the establishment’s name and theme: In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the Constitution. Second State does not do Pa. proud 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I haven’t read the Constitution since high school. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “We have to follow the Constitution,” Mace replied, “even when we don’t like who’s in charge or who won the election.” Trump shunned Nancy Mace. Can she survive a GOP primary anyway? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Her first book in 10 years, “Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood,” is based on the intellectual property law thesis she wrote at Yale Law School, where she graduated in 2008. Elizabeth Wurtzel: “You can’t write a memoir unless you aren’t afraid to sell everybody around you out” 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Constitution and its protection against self-incrimination keeps criminal defendants from having to testify at their trials. In rare move for murder defendant, Durst expected to testify 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “Let me ask you: Have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy.” What Trump Can Learn From a Gold Star Family 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z It's being shown in Philadelphia this weekend to kick off a National Constitution Center forum called "Civility and Democracy in America." Ken Burns: New film fits into civility discourse 2011-03-25T17:48:08Z Then they began moving beyond the text of the Constitution to invoke its spirit, which, they said, was mainly derived from the Declaration of Independence and its inspiring dedication to equality. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s worth sitting in front of your TV all morning to catch the one in which the Constitution is set to music.” George Newall, a Creator of ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ Dies at 88 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z A good example was Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty,” her favorite work of political philosophy, which she urged me to read. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z We know that neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution fully realized the all-men-are-created-equal principles that made Jefferson a rock star to acolytes fired up by his rhetoric. Review | ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ blooms with contradictions at Ford’s 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Through several generations of women, the play tracks gender inequality in power dynamics through the years, and serves as a critique of the Constitution. ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Is Extended 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “The Constitution mentions journalists. It mentions citizens. We’ve got truth and facts on our side, and the Constitution, and I remind them that the majority of Americans voted for somebody else…truth wins that war.” WATCH: Bill Maher asks Fipp Avlon if he’s suddenly become a Democrat 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z In the 227 years since the Constitution was printed in Colonial newspapers for land-owning white men to read and vote on, the document that can fit next to that gum has indeed changed the world. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket With each story or report, there grows a fear that the administration’s activities amount to an attack on the Constitution itself. Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew Other stops after that — totaling six, with a possible seventh in Washington — include the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia; and the Mémorial de Caen in Normandy, in France. Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ Paintings to Go on Tour 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z “Abbott Elementary” — a straight-up, joke-packed broadcast sitcom that makes a bunch of episodes a year and is actually good — is coming back on ABC in September, just as the framers of the Constitution intended. ‘Fall TV’ Is Dead. But Buzz Will Always Be With Us. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z I became familiar with the Constitution of the United States when I was 22 years old and a second-year law student in Pakistan. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He’s a devoted libertarian and a strict follower of the Constitution, said Nick Gillespie, former editor-in-chief of the libertarian magazine Reason. Fox legal analyst Napolitano emerges as Trump critic 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Constitution in crisp gold lettering inside the top lid. 'Real-Life Willy Wonka' made a chocolate flavor for each US state: 'Taste of America' 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Constitution that allows free commerce and travel between the states has been suspended, forcing citizens who want to enter sealed-off California to sneak past border control like illegal immigrants. Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Constitution for prize money in American Legion halls. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet viewed from the minor distance of 14th Street and Constitution, with the Washington Monument playing the role of antenna, it’s a fortress. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z After forcing you to consider for 80 minutes whether your civics class enthusiasm for the Constitution is still defensible, Ms. Schreck then introduces a 20-minute coda that includes a live debate on the subject. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The building, which opened almost five years ago at 23rd Street and Constitution Avenue, was designed by Safdie Architects of Boston, Massachusetts. Birdlike building inspires photo contest winner 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Constitution is and whether its crucial First Amendment is any kind of defense against executive power run amok. A call to action for journalists covering President Trump 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z In June 1788, the Hamilton of history delivered these words on the adoption of the Constitution: “Here, sir, the people govern.” ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Last week the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties held a hearing on presidential pardon power. What the heck does Steve King do all day? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Khan said, producing a pocket Constitution from his jacket pocket. Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who brandished the Constitution at the Democratic convention, will publish a memoir 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In the final draft, the Constitution turns out to have a hitherto unnoticed expiration date inscribed on the back page: Nov. 15, 2014. Movie Cram II at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Bagehot’s actual books are mainly collections of this journalism, but they include such classic studies as “The English Constitution” and “Lombard Street,” the latter an improbably scintillating overview of Victorian banking and investing. Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The owners of Cork Wine Bar on 14th Street NW, for instance, have sued Trump, alleging he has violated the Constitution's emoluments clause. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The DAR today is eager to point out that Anderson went on to perform at Constitution Hall in later life. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z The first American naturalization law was passed by the first Congress in 1790 – a Congress that included a significant number of the framers of the United States Constitution. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z Constitution, the First Amendment protects the publication of true facts about public figures, unless such facts would be highly offensive to a reasonable person and are not of legitimate concern to the public. The Stakes in Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Constitution, ratified in 1961, that extended the right to vote in presidential elections to D.C. voters. D.C. history’s pivotal 12-year span is highlighted in exhibit 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The absence is conspicuous because the Ninth Amendment is a prime example of how merely reading the text of the Constitution is not “the start and the finish of the interpretive process.” Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z The nation's capital, Washington, D.C., offers a parade down Constitution Avenue, followed by the annual Capitol Fourth concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. America's Great Fourth Of July Celebrations 2010-06-29T15:30:00Z They look at the Constitution, which doesn’t really define who is a citizen, but does have this clause saying that the president must be a natural-born citizen. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Unlike Davis, Lincoln never believed that the Constitution had been broken, even after the slaveholders began their rebellion in 1860-61. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But Obama also said he would not support an amendment adding that definition to the Constitution. Obama declares support for gay marriage 2012-05-09T19:36:00Z Only one person can write a new Constitution: whoever lives in Thomas Jefferson’s former apartment. Movie Cram II at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The Constitution is an amorphous and ever-morphing, pliable and breathing entity. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z We have long known of this pro-slavery view of the Constitution, one that has been much emphasized at the present time. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In different ways, “What the Constitution Means to Me” and “Oklahoma!” both explore how America’s sunny origin myths aren’t so sunny after all. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z But it’s also a metaphor for the complex ways that American women — well-born and ordinary, free and enslaved — helped, as the show’s curator, Valerie Paley, put it, “enact the Constitution on the ground.” Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Constitution marked up by George Washington and a 1939 letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the librarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeish, detailing plans to bring Magna Carta to the Library of Congress. Two Magna Cartas in D.C. Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental American values, written directly into the First Amendment of the Constitution. The Christian right’s twisted notion of religious freedom 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z What he's addressing is the Constitution as a living document, which we interpret not according to the intent of the Framers — he's no fan of originalism — but rather through the filter of the present day. 'The Second Amendment' is a smart history of guns and the U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Secularism is enshrined in the Indian Constitution and was, before the ascendance of Hindu nationalism, in the nineteen-nineties, a dominant strain of political thought in India, an antidote to theocratic Pakistan, across the border. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, it became a guiding light for the anti-apartheid movement and even appears in South Africa’s Interim Constitution. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z About 100 riot police in white helmets and visors, holding plastic riot shields and batons, pushed the rioters across Constitution Square. Kass in Greece: Angry protest scene 2012-04-04T20:20:00Z “I thought, ‘This is it: she’s bringing the Constitution to life,’ and you can sense the pulsation of the audience.” Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Blackman says there is nothing sacrosanct about them—like any other amendment they are subject to Article V of the Constitution. Inevitability or pipe dream?: Meet the Second Amendment repealists 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z After the Civil War ended in 1865, a change in the Constitution abolished slavery. Back to school: An opportunity to work together and learn "The Constitution of the United States," trailing only the new Harry Potter book on Amazon as of Tuesday evening, was first released a decade ago by the conservative National Center for Constitutional Studies. Top-selling edition of Constitution by conservative press 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z In a seemingly unconnected area, the Constitution also gave the federal judiciary control of “all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction.” “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Constitution and alludes to “the old adage” whose origins are in that ancient code: “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” An Awkward Trek Through Time at the Penn Museum 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Trump put pressure on Vice President Pence to magically deliver him from defeat, even as Pence released his own statement saying there was nothing more he could do without violating the Constitution. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Amazon publicized the premiere date of "What the Constitution Means to Me" on Sept. 17, one day before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in Washington, D.C. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The Constitution was the real American Revolution, as one commentator puts it in the series. NPR host Sagal hits the road in 'Constitution USA' 2013-05-07T19:26:09Z Constitution includes the First Amendment — a powerful protection but one that is open to interpretation and real-life norms. Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Bookbinder’s nonprofit, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, sued the president this year for allegedly breaching the Constitution’s little-known “emoluments clause” by enriching himself with foreign payments. Trump has been great for the economy. The anti-Trump economy, that is. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z She sued, alleging racial discrimination in violation of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws. High Court takes affirmative action case 2012-02-21T15:43:00Z Since then, on Sept. 17, the day the Constitution was signed in 1787, schools receiving federal funding and federal agencies must provide education about the Constitution. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket Salon spoke to Meyerson — a professor of law and a Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore. — about the framers of the Constitution, the upcoming elections, and religious discrimination. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z As far as the Constitution is concerned, it an email could suffice. At the State of the Union, Republicans Give Biden the Gift of Heckling 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z And in some states, women actually lost the right to vote as the Constitution was written. How to Make Independence Day More Meaningful Next Year 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s a historical examination, billed as “pop patriotism,” of the Intellectual Property clause in the Constitution, which she credits for laying the foundation of America’s entertainment world dominance in the 20th century. Elizabeth Wurtzel: “You can’t write a memoir unless you aren’t afraid to sell everybody around you out” 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Presumably the soccer overlords are aware that there’s no possible way Trump will still be president in 2026, unless he really does revoke the Constitution and cancel elections. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The backbone of the United States is her Constitution.” Sam Fink, Letterer and Illustrator of Historical Texts, Dies at 95 2011-11-05T06:18:09Z The National Constitution Center describes Franklin as possibly "the most-quoted public figure of his generation." Benjamin Franklin continues to be a pop culture darling, from "Bill & Ted's" to video games 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z There may be something vaguely admirable in the way Scalia, who also told the audience that the Constitution “isn’t a living document … It’s dead, dead, dead, dead,” sticks so consistently with his textualism. Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z But due to the propaganda efforts of Fox News and what David Frum calls “the conservative entertainment complex,” Obama’s orders are indicative of a severe abuse of power and an impeachable trespass against the Constitution. An abuse of power like the U.S. has never seen: The White House under President Trump 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Chief Justice Roberts pointed out that the Constitution does not specifically prohibit taxing inactivity. Closing the Window, Opening the Barn Door 2012-06-29T20:35:15Z Following in their giant footsteps, I take for granted the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment of our Constitution. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z He says he doesn’t read, so presumably it would be pointless; however, the Constitution might be a place to start. Jane Green: By the Book 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Young Heidi’s stock speech compared the Constitution, hilariously, to a witch’s caldron. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Constitution through a form of protection known as sovereign immunity. U.S. Supreme Court justices navigate video piracy case over Blackbeard's ship 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Supreme Court held that the Constitution extends the fundamental right to marry to all Americans, including same-sex couples. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The book is unlikely to change anyone’s mind about Snowden, but when it comes to privacy and speech and the Constitution, his story clarifies the stakes. In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Robots, dragons, martial ice-skaters, Hans Christian Andersen and the wonders of the United States Constitution. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, the New-York Historical Society acquired “We the People,” in which the first three words of the Constitution are spelled out in shoelaces, many of them donated by the public. The Artist Nari Ward on the the Goat as a Symbol of Democracy 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z I still have the British passport my mother brought with her to Britain from Barbados in 1961, along with three A-levels in English literature, European history and British Constitution. Home sweet home 2013-06-11T17:03:00Z The United States was relatively new, having won its independence half a dozen years earlier; the presidency and the Constitution were brand-new. George Washington Slept Here? Then So Will Nathaniel Philbrick. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The Republicans supposedly intended to bypass the Constitution’s protections for slavery by surrounding the South with free states, free territories, and free waters. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Last week, the government placed the democratically elected leaders of Kashmir under house arrest, blocked all communications and repealed the state’s semiautonomous status enshrined in the Constitution since 1949. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z She later added, “What a fitting person to be chosen by our Postal Service, mentioned by the way in our Constitution, something we should all read and reread in today’s times.” Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg Honor Oscar de la Renta 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Leeds narrowly wrote that there is no “clear language in the 1976 Cherokee Constitution to exclude the Freedman from citizenship.” Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z Slavery was never mentioned by name in the final version, but the Constitution engaged the issue. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Even when we moved into the Kennedy Center, we still recorded at Constitution Hall. Leaving the NSO, a veteran clarinetist reflects on the orchestra’s ups and downs 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In other words, he’s persuading the country to value the wisdom of the Constitution again. Ron Paul's Plan for Medicare Reform: Legalize Pot 2012-01-26T20:33:59Z When Whitley responds that “we still have the Constitution to protect us,” Sister Souljah reminds her that “when that piece of paper was written, African Americans in this country were slaves.” How ‘A Different World’ dealt with the L.A. riots and set the stage for a more political TV 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “This was a pivotal moment in history that really changed the Constitution, and changed the definition of American citizenship, which, in parentheses, is really under attack right now,” Mr. Foner said. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “The Constitution was not written for us,” Marshall says. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “I was very vague in what I said before. I'm not into conspiracies. I'm into freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America.” The QAnon problem facing local journalism this election season 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Founded on a set of principles mostly embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it is qualitatively different from most other countries. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z On “We the People,” Q-Tip sardonically inverts the Constitution’s preamble and croons hooks like, “All you black folks you must go/ all you Mexicans you must go/ all you poor folks you must go.” Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The live audience’s cheering echoed throughout the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., where the special was taped. “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”: Samantha Bee comes out stinging in a funny, freewheeling live special 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The fact that treason is defined in the Constitution and most decidedly does not include overthrowing the government never matters to people in real life anyway. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He had worked as a journalist for nearly sixty years, devoted to finding the facts and exposing the truth, defending the Constitution and the First Amendment and all that it stood for. He was behaving differently. He had lost something. I was the only one who noticed. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Constitution.A copy of the complaint was not immediately available. Cigarette makers: Labels violate free speech 2011-08-16T21:54:00Z Hearing new details about things they hadn’t realized were open to interpretation feels like cognitive dissonance, as if someone were tampering with the wording of the Constitution. J.K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z James Madison leans forward, seemingly bent on rescuing the Constitution from ignominy. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Senator, by gushing, "I bought a copy of the Constitution for her to sign!" "The Sex Lives of College Girls": Here's to the girl who tries our patience, but in the best way 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z For several generations, the most intense, complex and consequential arguments among conservatives have concerned how to construe the Constitution — the various flavors of textualism and originalism — and the role of courts in society. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Earlier that year, Howard University had tried to book Anderson for a recital at Washington’s only large concert stage, Constitution Hall, which was run by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Allan J. Lichtman’s important book emphasizes the founders’ great blunder: They failed to enshrine a right to vote in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Why the Right to Vote Is Not a Right 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z At every important turn, where Trump has committed abuses and outrages against the law and the Constitution — not every, but almost every turn — the courts have turned him back. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The bride, 31, is the executive director of the Constitutional Sources Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington that provides historical sources related to the creation, ratification and amendment of the Constitution. Julie Silverbrook, Adam Footer 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Board of Education, which interpreted the equal protection clause of the Constitution to bar segregation, and through the 1960s-era civil rights acts, which prohibited many types of discrimination in public and private life. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z Perhaps we should recognize, more accurately, that we’re already about to careen over a cliff and that the Constitution basically leaves us without brakes. Letters to the Editor 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “Nothing threatens your personal liberty more than the notion that you would bow your knee to the court system apart from the ultimate rule of the Constitution,” Huckabee told the crowd. Mike Huckabee on Martin Luther King Jr.: “I wish he were here today” to join me in discriminating against LGBTQ people 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z And as is customary at Cato, nearly everyone who stopped in for the show was offered a copy of the Constitution. What does a libertarian art show look like? The Cato Institute is finding out. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The bride is a direct descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the longest living signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Daniel Carroll, a signer of the Constitution. Constance Carter, Gordon Dale 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z In addition, "most Americans say the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God." Faith in America isn't dead: 'Strong thread of spirituality' in nation, new survey finds 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the production she demonstrates her profound admiration for what the Constitution symbolizes while tearing into its flaws with frustration and disappointment. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z There are a few rules mentioned in the Constitution. On Super Tuesday many voters will help choose major-party nominees for president 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Best play nominees were led by “The Ferryman” with nine nominations, “Choir Boy,” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” “Ink” and “What the Constitution Means to Me.” Bryan Cranston, musical 'Hadestown' score top nominations for... 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Constitution” was published on Constitution Day, on Sept. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America Topics: , , , The Constitution, The First Amendment At crucial points when the church-state wall was most threatened in America, people rose up to defend it. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z “One of the sub-narratives is about how this group grew from partisan hacks to the priests of the Constitution.” ‘More Perfect,’ a Spinoff of ‘Radiolab,’ Comes to WNYC 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Founded on a set of principles mostly embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it is qualitatively different from most other countries. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Jack Stuef wondered, in Wonkette, “Why didn’t Obama notice he had a Constitution stuck to his shoe when he left the restroom stall?” Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Our precious Constitution is now a parchment rag. Style Invitational Week 1354: As the Word Turns 5 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z America, on the other hand, saw religion thrive because the First Amendment to the Constitution created a religious free market. Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z Constitution, not treating it as a “living document” that shifts with the times. Scalia and the intern, punching from right and left in ‘The Originalist’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z "Stokowski was at Constitution Hall, he was at the receiver and manipulating the sound," McCarthy said. Stokowski sleuth tracks past for Philly Orchestra 2012-12-21T16:25:17Z Marian Anderson, who was famously barred from singing at Constitution Hall because of her race, is a big presence in the book as an inspiration and a role model. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z Through all his twists and turns Lincoln held firm to his belief that the guiding spirit of the Constitution was the principle of fundamental human equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Constitution, with several colonies granting patents years before the Constitution was created. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z This year marks the 24th national people count, which the Constitution requires be held every 10 years. Census 2020 means it’s time for Americans to be counted 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z "My parents raised me to love and appreciate the flag, the Constitution, and our country," she also said. Wreaths Across America honors fallen military at holiday time: 'Deep appreciation for those who serve' 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z He points to Article V of the Constitution, which exempted the slave trade from even the potential of being outlawed by constitutional amendment until 1808. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z At Georgetown, Jeff Sessions celebrated the American ideal, enshrined in the Constitution, of honoring views we may find disagreeable. Perspective | Jeff Sessions sounded like a free-speech champion at Georgetown. That’s absurd. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z As an intelligent computer, does he have rights under the Constitution? ArtsBeat: A Lawyerly Chat With 'Law and the Multiverse' 2010-12-20T15:13:14Z If so, the Constitution itself will look “ever less credible.” David Frum Rethinks Conservatism 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “This was the Constitution, but it didn’t take effect until it had been debated and ratified. So this was the first step in the process of us living now under this 234-year-old document.” Sotheby’s puts rare U.S. Constitution copy for auction 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Gorsuch said in a statement issued through his publisher that the book was a tribute to his faith in the Constitution and the “responsibility we all share to ensure it remains strong.” Book of Gorsuch speeches and writings out in September 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The consequence: Conservatives are cheating fatefully and destructively on their older insight that what the Constitution rightly protects, civil society rightly modulates, lest a free-for-all become a free-for-none. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z When Congress came back into session, they validated his actions — which I think set a precedent for presidents to assume that they could go beyond the Constitution. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z Because of course being Catholic was a bad thing, a disadvantage, but they were able to make a way in American society because that could be overcome, and you had the Constitution on your side. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The president’s conditioning of aid to Ukraine “clearly constitutes impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution,” said Feldman, of Harvard. Impeachment goes to college 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Take the short essay "Constitution of Athens", now attributed to the anonymous "Old Oligarch". 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The death penalty report, authored by a committee of former high-level prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officers and correctional officials, was issued by The Constitution Project, a nonprofit organization that neither supports nor condemns capital punishment. Death penalty report cites value of taping interrogations 2014-05-09T10:58:00Z Nothing’s riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.” All the Editors That Are Fit to Spoof 2011-08-10T21:16:38Z A ballet and opera devotee, she idolized Marian Anderson and attended her 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall. Billie Allen, Actress Who Bridged Racial Gap, Dies at 90 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z And the military, in defending and upholding the Constitution, protects that right to protest. Don’t speak for my military family: A veteran’s wife on Colin Kaepernick and the Nike boycott 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In the email sent to other department officials, obtained Monday by The Associated Press, Hilton Burton demands details about the escort given to Sheen on the way to his performance at DAR Constitution Hall. Email: Commander was unaware of Sheen escort in DC 2011-04-25T17:33:11Z Nominated plays such as Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” and Taylor Mac’s “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” betokened the emergence of singular off-Broadway talents as major Broadway players. Perspective | Hey, Tony Awards, lighten up! You should give more prizes to the funny stuff. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z A wan inscription composed by Ben Okri – "Our future is greater than our past" – decorates the Commonwealth Memorial Gates at the top of Constitution Hill. London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z “I would like others, like Snowden, to think about their oath to the Constitution and whether they are obeying it” by keeping silent, he said. Perspective | Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden? 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z At one point, I can’t remember why, he recited the Preamble to the Constitution. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The event Thursday at National Constitution Center was in honor of Gates. Kim Delaney escorted from Philadelphia podium 2011-09-23T18:31:46Z Clubbed Thumb, the company whose discoveries include “What the Constitution Means to Me” and “Tumacho,” is serializing Rinne Groff’s play, about the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment, over three episodes released weekly. Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Five weeks before “Young Mr. Lincoln” opened, the contralto Marian Anderson, who had been forbidden to perform at Constitution Hall, sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial, crystallizing the monument’s association with freedom and civil rights. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z I do solemnly affirm that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z We were at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater on West 44th Street, where “What the Constitution Means to Me” had moved, thanks to its enthusiastic reception off-Broadway. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The compromise reached by the Constitution helped to preserve the Union, but at an egregious cost to democracy. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice last month. Louisiana congressman helping lead GOP effort to limit federal definition of gender 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The United States Constitution guarantees women equal rights. Review: ‘Equal Means Equal’ Asks How Far Women Have Really Come 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It held that the exclusion order did not violate the Constitution. Fred Korematsu's freedom fight: Remembering a Japanese American hero who resisted internment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The name derives from the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which in practice granted white women the right to vote, and whose 100th anniversary is this summer. New media outlet covering the intersection of women and politics launches as 2020 election kicks off 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z American Cruise Lines is offering savings on select departures aboard its new 175-passenger American Constitution, which is scheduled to launch in April. Travel deals: Discounted flights in Japan and more than half off a Costa Rica trip 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “This bill merely reinforces the rights which currently exist to the exercise of religious freedom as stated in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” wrote the Republican governor in a statement on Twitter. Hate wins again: Mississippi governor signs bill allowing businesses to deny service to gay customers 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z A barometer will be Constitution Gardens, just east of the Vietnam wall. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z This book could not be more timely, given the recent Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage and health care, and debates over the meaning of the Constitution. Review: ‘The Quartet,’ by Joseph Ellis, Details the Constitution’s Gang of Four 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z “What the Constitution Means to Me” topped plenty of 2018 year’s best lists. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Surely this amendment was added to the Constitution to prevent, rather than cause, a crisis, but the author’s meaning is plain. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The festivities marked the commemoration of the signing of the Cherokee Tribal Constitution. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z That’s why he favored the prominent southwest corner of Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street NW. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z This is the second time Kiffer is leading the auction of this copy of the Constitution. Rare US Constitution copy up for auction expected to fetch $15M 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z While my teacher discussed the Constitution, I took the cartographical look of the U.S. military’s Pacific island-hopping campaign of World War II, globalized it, and set it in an unimaginable future nine years distant. My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z It’s unpaid, unofficial, and not mentioned in the Constitution. Melania Trump is busier than you think, but as quiet as ever 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In New York, a few weeks after the Jan. 20 inauguration, there appeared a crudely made sculpture of the new president sitting on a toilet, using the Constitution as tissue paper. Would Donald Trump make art great again? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand are the languorous crackpots who wonder if codes are embedded in their Home Depot receipts, or if George Washington’s wooden leg hid an alternate Constitution. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z Either way, the Constitution clearly keeps religion apart from the state. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Lucas Johnson, 17, and other high school students in Connecticut want their classrooms and school experiences to return to normal now across the Constitution State. Connecticut high school students want mask mandates dropped now: 'Kids are traumatized' 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z I live in America; “Stand By Me” and “Carrie” may as well be articles of the Constitution. Review: ‘Castle Rock’ Is Too Haunted by Its Past 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But eventually he gets this nonsense out of his system and begins serving up substantive segments that, taken together, do help us see the Constitution in new ways. Television Review: ‘Constitution USA With Peter Sagal,’ on PBS 2013-05-06T20:20:31Z “As scholars and statesmen debate the meaning of documents such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they can turn to the originals and the wit and wisdom of the founders’ own debates. ArtsBeat: A Digital Future for the Founding Fathers 2011-01-30T20:02:25Z The National Constitution Center, which sponsored the concert, did not permit photography. Ginsburg makes 1st public appearance since cancer surgery 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z As arrogant and as Trump appears to be, he cannot break the Constitution, and he cannot break the rule of law. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The law school answer is: the Constitution guarantees everyone a fair trial. America’s criminal injustice system: A private eye sheds light on the gross indignities suffered by the poor 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z “Or do you believe, as I do, that the government’s business is encompassed in the words that the Constitution does include: promoting ‘general Welfare’ and securing the ‘Blessings of Liberty’ for each American? Perspective | Here’s the speech Biden should give about abortion 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Andrea Reeb, the case’s previous special prosecutor, removed herself after Mr. Baldwin’s lawyers had argued that her appointment violated the State Constitution because she also serves as a state legislator. ‘Rust’ Prosecutors Are Dropping Charges Against Alec Baldwin, His Lawyers Say 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z She turned to point at a building across Constitution Avenue. An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Constitution rolled off the presses, the Original MC put the king on notice and established the right of due process. Two Magna Cartas in D.C. Be sure to tell us what specific part of the Constitution you’re translating. Style Invitational Week 1293: Constitutional unconvention 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln, Feldman contends, embraced a new, “moral Constitution” by purging the country’s original sin of slavery and re-establishing the nation on a more noble foundation. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z However, Anderson said this amount doesn’t adequately compensate for “mental and physical suffering” or future treatments the woman will need, the Journal Constitution reports. Woman claims Chick-fil-A served her cleaning solution in her coffee 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Plus, of course, all of this is just in the United States, where we do have a Constitution that ostensibly gives us the legal right to not be religious. Atheists fight discrimination too 2012-08-09T18:26:00Z He quickly notes that the preamble to the Constitution declares Americans are seeking a "more perfect" union. Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution 2013-05-14T12:11:37Z The film moves fluidly between Hentoff's career focus on the Constitution and jazz, his "two main reasons for being," seeing freedom as the key to the beauty of both. 'Pleasures of Being Out of Step' a brisk look at Nat Hentoff 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Constitution, which enshrined the right for women to vote. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Find the fun on Pennsylvania Avenue between 10th and 14th Streets and also on 12th Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. National Cherry Blossom Festival 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z The pocket Constitution, which sells for one dollar, skyrocketed on Amazon after Thursday’s DNC speech by Khizr Khan, a Virginia lawyer whose son, U.S. Pocket Constitution becomes bestseller after Khizr Khan's convention speech 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z He took an oath to defend the Constitution. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Concluding the ceremony, he said: “By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I’m honored to pronounce you married.” On Love: Glenn Hennessey & Steve Kogut 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z |
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