In 2008, 72 percent of voters in Riviera Beach, FL, passed a ban on pants that ride below the waist exposing skin or underwear. But wait: turns out loose waistbands are a civil liberty. A judge ruled this week that the ordinance violated the 14th amendment of the constitution, because there was no legitimate government interest in the law regulating style. The city argued that the ban on saggy Read more

Welcome to the border — where anyone can be stopped and searched. It used to be just the point of entry along Canada and Mexico, but Homeland Security has taken an increasingly loose — or wide — interpretation of it. Now? It's a 100-mile radius that wraps around the border of the United States. Oh yes. It’s called the Constitution-Free Zone by the ACLU. The concern is that it erodes the Read more

After signing two bills into law this week, President Bush said that he could bypass numerous parts of the laws. In a signing statement Bush said a military authorization act and a measure giving inspectors general greater independence from the White House unlawfully constrained the president's constitutional powers. So which parts will Bush ignore? A section forbidding money from being used Read more

The Constitution was instated in its original form in 1787 and its contents continually spark conversation and debate about the American ways. When political or moral conversation gets heated, we always add in our two cents, and most times much more. But what if you could actually change the laws on the issues you don't agree with? What if you could single handedly abolish, add, or reconstruct Read more