In the sweltering summer of 1787, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia for what we now call the Constitutional Convention. While it sounds like a straightforward meeting today, it was ...

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California's judiciary has been selectively interpreting laws and disregarding codified canons of construction, resulting in the preservation of racially tainted convictions and sentences, and the ...

The writers of the Constitution sought an approach that balanced control between the states and the federal government.

The vote in Hamden for approval — that is, the vote to guide the town’s delegate being sent to Hartford, a Mr. Theophilus Goodyear — was definitively negative: “yeas 5, nays 73.” Yet, and perhaps ...

The United States almost didn’t happen, but by avoiding giving too much power to one person, the republic thrived. Maybe that sounds familiar.

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While there were no Jewish representatives at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Philadelphian Jews still played a ...

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Kansas joins the call for an Article V Convention of States, the Framers’ prescription for America’s survival.

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In “Miracle at Philadelphia,” Catherine Drinker Bowen details the personalities involved in crafting the U.S. Constitution, ...