The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office entered new territory last Friday in its defense of the state’s school funding formula, arguing that two landmark school funding decisions were wrongly decided and should be overturned. In August 2025, Judge David Ruoff of Rockingham County Superior Court ruled in favor of a group of taxpayers in the […]
State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project – nor is it an entirely liberal one.
While only a sliver of Americans say they support violating core democratic norms, many more say they’re ambivalent about politicians who undermine democracy.
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
Montesquieu shaped how Americans understood liberty, and his warning about a ‘tyranny of opinion’ speaks to today’s polarization.
Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’
In President Donald Trump’s public language, Congress rarely appears as a coequal branch of government. It appears as an obstacle, an audience, a pressure point, a rubber stamp or an afterthought.
Today, civic life is marked by deep divides on policy issues, distrust in government as an agent of the people, and by serious doubts that gov…
Carey Cahoon, left, and Nick Meunier in theatre KAPOW's “What the Constitution Means to Me” by Heidi Schreck at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse in…
Adia Robinson-Wood, left, and Carey Cahoon in theatre KAPOW's “What the Constitution Means to Me” by Heidi Schreck at the Winnipesaukee Playho…