Constitutional Topics

Constitutional Topics The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages . Topics are added and revised on an on-going basis. If you have an idea for a topic, let the let the...

Constitutional Topic: The Second Amendment Advertisement The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages . This Topic Page concerns The Second Amendment. This topic has a home...

Constitutional Topic: Ratification Conventions The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages . This Topic Page concerns Amendment Ratification Conventions. Article 5 details a...

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Takeaways from Kristi Noem’s combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

Confirmation hearings are not trials, and they are not job interviews in the normal sense. They are something more constitutionally revealing: a stress test for power. Who gets to ask questions. Who has to answer them. Which promises are treated as binding, and which are treated as theater....