[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,...

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto....

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

It’s a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey...

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.