I started carrying around a pocket version of the U.S. Constitution in my purse in 1998 after I visited South Africa for the first time. It was only four years after the first full democratic election ...

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

Your right to vote in a local election is enshrined by the US Constitution's 10th amendment. We’ll talk with U.S. Documents Librarian Cass Hartnett about why for the past 20 years she invites the ...

these days, we’ve been talking about this document. We’ve been wondering if the Constitution will hold fast the center of our government given the chaos our president has caused — in government ...

I read “The Vanishing Voter” (cover story, Aug. 16) with considerable interest. I’ve been involved in electoral reform movements for 20 years, including serving for most of that time on the national ...