WASHINGTON — A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has given us two terms of remarkable support for free expression — in cases remarkable for speech that many, if not most, of us really, really dislike. Its ruling June 27 that the states cannot forbid ...

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There’s been a lot of intelligent comment about Barack Obama and the War Powers Resolution (WPR) as we’ve neared and passed the 60-day deadline set by the WPR for the administration to ask Congress for permission to continue our military ...

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers is suing President Barack Obama for taking military action against Libya without war authorization from Congress. The lawmakers say Obama violated the Constitution in bypassing Congress and using international organizations like the ...

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WALKERSVILLE — A Maryland town is making it harder for groups like the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church to protest at funerals. The town of Walkersville on Wednesday approved an ordinance that requires demonstrators to stay 1,000 feet away from funerals, ...

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Architects of the U.S. Constitution took care to make alterations difficult. Amendment of the Constitution may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a special convention petitioned by two-thirds of the state legislatures. Any ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population to relieve severe overcrowding that has exposed inmates to increased violence, disease and death. The decision, however, doesn’t mean the prison gates will ...

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More than 2 billion people across the globe have Internet access and there are some 5 billion mobile-phone subscriptions, according to the 2010 Human Rights Report released this month by the U.S. Department of State. As we saw in Tunisia ...

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WASHINGTON— Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban more than 2 1/2 years ago, hundreds of residents in Washington’s safest and wealthiest areas have registered handguns — more than those in poor areas with ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court isn’t given to offering advice to people who are breaking the law, even in a minor way. But some justices on Wednesday effectively told those who might be sitting at home smoking pot when the ...

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