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

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 ...

Friday's Supreme Court decision matters far beyond tariffs. The court reminded the executive branch of a basic constitutional ...

The author says Rhode Island's direct military role in the American Revolution was limited, but its unique history of ...

Ohioans against a Statehouse resolution for a national convention to propose term limits for members of Congress warned ...

From calendar changes to commanding the Continental Army — test your knowledge of America’s first President with this quick quiz, Education, Times Now ...

Confronted with the dangers of expansive executive power, our nation’s founders sought to curb it at every turn.

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 ...

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

While the nation rightly commemorates 2026 as the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 2027 marks something equally vital, if not more so: 240 years since Americans committed to ...

As Philadelphia celebrates America's 250th birthday all year long, the National Constitution Center just opened a new gallery that explores our country's beginnings and features a rare copy of the ...