The founders struggled with the threat of an elected executive seizing monarchical power, professor and author Robert J.

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

The Trump Administration’s inability to identify legal footing for Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to bomb Iran, whether on the originalist premises that his camp sometimes prefers, or others that ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson depicting him drafting the Declaration of Independence at a ...

The term “constitutional crisis” has been used frequently in 2025, often in reaction to a political situation, a ...

Presidential aggrandizement of the war power – the authority to initiate war and lesser military hostilities – which the Framers granted solely and exclusively to Congress because they feared the ...

On his first day in office -- of his second term, not his wasted first term -- President Trump signed an executive order ...

The Stuart family tells a story that during the raid of Union troops on Saltville, Virginia, in December 1864, a soldier of ...

It has been almost five years since the last North Carolina Bookwatch program was produced and aired by PBS-NC.  Some people still ask me what programs PBS NC Bookwatch would be airing if the program ...

Discover who James Madison is. Learn about his early life, his key role in the Federalist Papers & Bill of Rights, and his ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

A recent vote in the Indiana Senate could put the United States on track for its first constitutional convention since 1787. Senate Joint Resolution 21, which passed the Republican-controlled ...