The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and oversight over military actions, but recent actions by the White ...

Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...

Early in my career, I wrote a paper on "constitutional theory and the faces of power." It borrowed from an older concept in political science to reflect on the less examined ways in which ...

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

Re: “Alarm grows after U.S. joins fighting” (Page A1, June 23). The U.S. Constitution clearly states that only Congress has the power to declare war. Instead, Congress allowed Donald Trump to ...

The conflicts over President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois and Oregon hinge on a question as ...

A Constitution Day address “Commander-in-Chief or Constitutional Overreach?” is scheduled at Hartwick College 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19 in the Shineman Chapel House, with a reception to follow from 6-7 ...

Albany — The Budget Equity Act is gaining momentum at the State Capital, and if it passes, twice, it's something that potentially would be on New Yorkers' ballots in the future. Lawmakers, either out ...

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