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

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

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 ...

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

The United States Constitution has become the primary text of America’s civil religion. As a nation lacking a common religion, “We the People” have come to worship our Constitution as the scripture ...

In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the federal Sedition Act, which criminalized the publication of any “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.

“[H]istory showed that the way tyrants had eliminated a militia consisting of all the able-bodied men was not by banning the militia but simply by taking away the people’s arms, enabling a select ...

One of the most heated constitutional debates in early America involved Congress’s power to establish a national bank. Bank supporters like Alexander Hamilton argued that a national bank was essential ...

Early in 1776, John Adams dove into constitutional deliberations in the Massachusetts General Court. He authored the proclamation adopted in January 1776 and summoning citizens and civil officers to ...

View the document on the National Constitution Center’s website here. John Locke, Second Treatise on Government: Let’s begin by considering people in a state of nature, before they form a government.

Jefferson and Madison: From Independence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, a leading architect of the U.S ...