Constitution Day commemorates a signal achievement, one creating a government strong enough to maintain order but with powers ...

On this third day of Constitution Week, we turn our attention to Scottish-born James Wilson, a Pennsylvania delegate to the ...

In 1786, the young United States of America was nearly ripped apart by Shays’ Rebellion. Angry farmers suffering from debt ...

George Mason, one of America’s “Forgotten Founders,” insisted that “no free government” could be preserved except “by ...

This Constitution Day, we should remember the precious founding document produced on Sept. 17, 1787, in Philadelphia.

If a candidate were to win each of the thirty smallest states by exactly one vote and not receive a single vote anywhere else ...

Shenandoah University has announced it will launch “The Great Experiment,” an educational, immersive history virtual reality project that places users at the center of the debates from the ...

It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...

U.S. Constitution Week begins Tuesday. As historian Paul Johnson notes in his book, “A History of the American People,” “The (Constitutional) Convention met in Philadelphia again and sat for four ...

The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they ...

The Declaration stated that men are equal and should be allowed to live freely. The Constitution is a guide for how to govern while retaining the concepts of equality and freedom.

The week of Sept. 17-23 is set aside as Constitution Week, celebrating the most influential legal document in America.