Debate over the British government's controversial Rwanda bill has once again raised the question of whether a written constitution would help or hinder the process to allow the deportation of illegal ...

Our Constitution contains the written rules governing our political system. It floats on a sea of unwritten rules needed to make it work as intended. Adolf Hitler was not elected chancellor by voters.

Politico Magazine recently published a guide to etiquette for life in the District of Columbia. One of the rules went well beyond simple etiquette, highlighting a provision of America’s unwritten ...

America has an unwritten constitution. It’s not well-known, but it is powerful. It governs even the written constitution which we know so well. Where has such a constitution been hiding? In plain ...

Many of the founding fathers were originally quite skeptical of establishing a Bill of Rights. They were concerned that enumerating certain rights would lead to removing protections for those ...

We Americans live with one another through various written and unwritten understandings: compacts, covenants, articles of confederation … a Constitution. In other words: a fairly elaborate social ...

As we continue to engage with the Harmonised Draft Constitution, it is imperative that we appreciate some of the contingencies and exigencies inevitably brought to bear in the ensuing debates. Of ...

Playing to type, Harvard and Yale law professors have taken to the pages of The New York Times to say that we should trash the Constitution. Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn (of Harvard and Yale, ...

What have people said about the Baby Ninths since they were first adopted in 1819? Delegates thought they protected unenumerated rights. But judges have mostly failed to put them into action. In this ...