NEW-ORLEANS, Thursday, March 21. The State Convention, to-day, after a lively debate, ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 100 Ayes to 7 Nays. Advertisement ...

“The Constitution of the Confederate States,” the legal scholars Mark A. Graber and Howard Gillman wrote in their volume on American constitutionalism, “was the world’s first example of an ...

The city of St. Louis and the leader of its city council have filed a federal lawsuit against a new Missouri law that puts a state-appointed board in control of the local police department.

At the Smithsonian Museum, thoughts about Trump’s Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” came to ...

The framers of the Constitution expected there would be tension between the branches or between the federal government and the states ... an alleged Confederate sympathizer named Roger Merryman ...

The city says the law violates a provision of the Missouri Constitution that prohibits ... when Missouri was sharply divided between Union and Confederate supporters. St. Louis and Kansas City ...

Moreover, the governors of all eleven Confederate states were Democrats ... from their ballots pursuant to the Constitution’s insurrection clause. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled ...

Donald Trump took one step closer to openly defying an order from the Supreme Court today—effectively daring the justices to ...