Junius Brutus Stearns' 1856 painting George Washington Addressing the Constitutional Convention. Most Americans haven't read the U.S. Constitution in a long time, if ever. They may be able to tell you ...

Hawaii approaches Nov. 4 with great anticipation. After all, the Honolulu-born Barack Obama may just become the next President of the United States. But there is something else on the ballot that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reuters/Getty Images Just days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, a Republican congressman already wants to ...

To the editor: UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s proposal for a new U.S. constitution is a superficial campaign advocacy piece that would throw the baby out with the bathwater. He ...

In his new book "No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States," legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky contends that it's high time to hold a new constitutional convention.