President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

Scholars have criticised the Constitution for being colonial. The RSS claims it’s not rooted in an Indian ethos. So, in what sense has it been good for India?

Peter explores the Constitution’s most striking and innovative feature: its resilient brand of federalism. The framers created a strong national government while at the same time preserving much ...

The second was to reaffirm the nature of the federal system. Because the Constitution created a government of limited and enumerated powers, the Framers initially believed that a bill of rights ...

The final Constitution that came out in 1949 drew voluminously from the principles of governance that prevailed in ancient ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...