Many people agree that one of the reasons for the second amendment to the United States Constitution, the right to bear arms, is to protect citizens from the government itself. An unarmed populace ...

Those who wrote and ratified the Constitution sometimes called its protections “parchment barriers” – meaning the paper and words on it couldn’t do much unless people supported it.

South Sudanese authorities should uphold due process for the opposition leader and First Vice President Riek Machar, other ...