Reflections on the Revolution in France was an indictment not only of the French Revolution but of the French Enlightenment.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

Reagan falls just behind Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Jefferson, and T.R. on our list of greatest leaders. The passage of time has given scholars a newfound appreciation.

Punishing political enemies? So Nixonian, so last century. Yet, 40 years later, the Obama administration found a good government way to pursue the same objective.

Elena Kagan's inability to understand the limited judicial role implied by the Constitution combined with her complete lack of experience, sparse academic writings, and deliberately evasive testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee makes her unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.

Conservatives should not look at the GOP's new "Pledge to America" as the sum total of the Republican agenda, but as the opening bid.

Until a few decades ago, James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was probably the least appreciated great figure in American history.

Walter's great contribution is in seeing the Constitution whole--as much more than a set of legal doctrines or parade of court decisions--and in showing that it can illuminate the most vexing contemporary problems and controversies. There is no better way to observe Constitution Day than to read Walter Berns.