“…the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian...
Constitution
Republican loyalty has superseded branch loyalty, and never more so than in the Trump era. By Dr....
Several skeptical delegates left Philadelphia earlier than the September 17, 1787 signing day. The earliest critics of...
Voting rights advocates sought to ensure and expand this most fundamental right of citizens. By Dr. Jennifer...
70 years have now passed since our nation’s founding documents came together and became known collectively as...
Gerry the proposed original constitution threatened the liberties of the people and the rights of the states....
Our Founders left a document open to change with the ability to adapt to new times and...
“Equality before the law” under the Fourteenth Amendment means exactly what it says it means. Former Associate...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
The doctrine of “state action” is integral to American Constitutional law. Originally published by CALI eLangdell Press...
Federalism was a political solution for the problems with the Articles of Confederation giving little authority to...
As the Union grew during the two centuries after the founding, state constitutions increasingly included enumerations of...
Introduction The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ratification of the United...
Examining the most significant Madison holographs related to the drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the...
It was not new ideas but old ones that led the colonists to revolt and form a...
The sparse history has given Congress relatively few opportunities to flesh out the bare bones of the...
Bitter political partisanship marked eleven previous presidential impeachment inquiries and the 1787 debate in Philadelphia. By Harlow...
James Madison proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, but only 10 were approved. When the Constitutional Convention...
The absence of a “bill of rights” turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution’s ratification...
The 1787 debate over how slaves would be counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative...