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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Forty-six percent of Americans did not know the Constitution’s purpose was to create a federal government, and 26 percent incorrectly believed it was written to declare independence from England.

An extremely rare historical artifact, a signed ratification copy of the U.S. Constitution, has been found and could fetch a ...