The Supreme Court has announced which cases and controversies it will consider during arguments from October to December 2026 ...

On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will begin its new term with one of the biggest cases on its docket.

St. John claims the zoning decision placed a “substantial burden” on its First Amendment free exercise rights, citing a ...

Pennsylvania became a place where people of different faiths sought to live together under laws that protected religious freedom while cultivating civic life. Yet that experiment was also marked by ...

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as chair of the United ...

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Gunning Bedford served on the committee that drafted the Great Compromise over equal representation of the states in the Senate. Gunning Bedford was born in ...

George Mason, member of a prominent Virginia family who had authored Virginia’s Declaration of Rights in 1776, was one of three delegates in Philadelphia (along with fellow Virginian, Edmund Randolph, ...

The National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library includes primary texts that span American history—from the philosophical works that influenced the Founding generation to the most important ...

Prince Hall was a free African American living in Boston. He began a petition campaign to end slavery in 1773. But after 1776, he had new authority to draw on—the power of the Declaration of ...

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and ...

Constitution 101 resource for The Constitution of the United States: Fast Facts ...

The original Constitution did not specifically protect the right to vote—leaving the issue largely to the states. For much of American history, this right has often been granted to some, but denied to ...