Constitutional design and democratic governance examine how written or unwritten foundational rules shape political institutions, allocate power and safeguard rights. Central concerns include the ...

Translation of Sverdlov's speech, on the election of a Constitution Drafting Commission. Source: from the report on the meeting of the (All-Russian) Central Executive Committee, 1 April 1918.

In a letter written to James Madison from Paris, Thomas Jefferson opined that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. . . . Every constitution, then, and every law, ...

Constitutional design encompasses the formal arrangements by which political authority is allocated, constrained and renewed. These arrangements include the choice of executive and legislative ...

People across the political spectrum believe that the constitutional system has failed badly. For progressives the failure is manifest in the White House and the Senate: our political system put in ...

The United States Constitution was signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. We have entered the 237th year of our national Constitution, which ...

As part of its efforts to equip its members with a better understanding of constitution provisions so as to enhance the relationship between the State and its citizens, the Constitution Reform ...