Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 20th Amendment to the ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

The world has changed. Life has changed. Politics has changed. It is time to change the 20th Amendment of our Constitution. January 20th is too long to wait for a new president. In accordance with the ...

The first Inauguration Day was on April 30, 1789, when George Washington took the oath of office in New York City as the first president of the United States. For many years, Inauguration Day was held ...

President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House later this month, but some Americans may not know that there is a precise moment when that transition of power takes place. Most Americans ...

Editor's note: Trump's inaugural ceremony has been moved indoors due to weather. Follow here for more information. Inauguration Day is full of ceremony and celebration, much of which is either ...

The U.S. Constitution is not a suggestion. It is the most sacred document in our country's history. Under the government it created, 12,583 people have served in Congress, 116 justices have been ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...