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 ...

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

Opinion: The Commander in Clause affords the president no authority whatever to initiate military hostilities on behalf of ...

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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution places the power "to declare War" exclusively in the hands of Congress. The ...

The measure and its Senate counterpart, SJR 6, look to piggyback on a 1992 amendment to the Ohio Constitution that instituted term limits for Ohio’s members in Congress of two successive six-year ...

Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse ...

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald ...

By the time the 13 states came together in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention in 1787, four state constitutions protected the right to bear arms within a militia, but only Pennsylvania ...

It was first introduced by James Madison in 1789, but wasn't ratified by all the necessary state legislatures until 1992. Protesters gather, too ...

Introduction James Madison and James Monroe are often remembered as mediocre presidents. In C-SPAN’s 2021 Presidential Rankings Survey, Madison came in at 16 and Monroe at 12. Their reputations ...