The next 12 months are an opportunity to remind Americans that their political institutions were created to serve the founding documents.

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks like authoritarianism." ...

Professor Painter observed that if President Trump “is angry that he can’t impose tariffs (i.e. taxes) without consent of the legislature, instead of blaming Leonard Leo, he should blame the drafters ...

Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a copy from 1327 when it was purchased ...

The Magna Carta was first created by King John in 1215, designed as a peace agreement between himself and barons, who forced the king to change the way England was ruled.

Harvard Law School has discovered that a manuscript it purchased in the 1930s for just $27.50 is, in fact, a genuine 1300 edition of the Magna Carta—one of only 25 known to still exist.

Harvard’s $27.50 ‘copy’ of Magna Carta revealed to be original worth millions “You and I both know what this is!” By Nathan Metcalf Globe Correspondent, Updated May 15, 2025, 6:56 p.m. 3 ...

A “copy” of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original ...

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original ...

What was long thought to be a copy of the Magna Carta at Harvard Law School in the US is in fact an extremely rare original from among seven surviving versions of the document issued by English ...

Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection of ...