The state’s constitution is pretty comprehensive, both protecting an individual’s freedom of conscience on the one hand, and everybody’s right to be immune to others’ attempts to make them support or pay for their religious views.

Here's a pop quiz on what you know about the Minnesota Constitution.

A change to the method used to amend the constitution--to require a two-thirds majority support in both houses, for instance--would, itself, require the passage of an amendment.

Missing from our debates over who should have access to guns and over how much government should tax and spend are answers to the fundamental question: What is our government for?

Frenetic early-morning celebrations capped an historic Election Day in which Minnesota voters defeated two ballot initiatives that were a hallmark of the GOP-controlled Legislature that swarmed to victory two years ago on a national wave.

Since before the state government shutdown even began, it was clear where the impasse was headed if neither governor nor Legislature blinked: straight to the courtroom of Ramsey County District Court Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced this morning that he's proposing to amend Minnesota's state Constitution to place restrictions on the biennium-to-biennium growth of general fund spending.

Things were so raucous in 1857 that each party drafted its own state constitution. Reproductions are on display.

Before starting his campaign for judge in the First Judicial District, state Rep. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, has a few things he wants to get done in the Legislature.