America’s 249th birthday Friday will be no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, ...

Re: “Abbott clears way for Ten Commandments in schools,” Metro, June 26: Gov. Greg Abbott is so fixated on displaying the Ten ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

The squabbling between the president and the central bank’s chairman is a reminder of how anomalous the Federal Reserve is in ...

The question is not whether Congress or the Supreme Court has the power to stop Donald Trump but whether they will ever use it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain ...

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

The Constitution’s chief author—James Madison—had a problem. He wanted to win a congressional seat in Virginia, but he needed the votes of white southern Baptists to do so.

Area residents take special pride on Constitution Day. It’s when the nation honors the achievement of her most famous son — Father of the Constitution James Madison.

Step aside Elon Musk and make way for the “OG” of DOGE, James Madison. This week in 1788, Madison’s Federalist No. 62 was published in The [New York] Independent Journal.

In the Federalist, James Madison laid out the logic by which tyranny would be prevented in the new American nation. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are testing his logic as never before. Madison’s ...