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

A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that ...

The Constitution empowers “we the people” through our elected representatives. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the ...

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

Commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. Constitution on the historic grounds this Saturday at James Madison’s Montpelier in ...

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

James Madison University is named after the fourth president of the United States, but its mascot is named after the ...

Half a century ago, the famed presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns voiced this warning about the Electoral College: ...

On this second day of Constitution Week, we look at James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, who was a delegate from ...

Not since Gerald Ford in 1975 has a president or presidential candidate survived two assassination attempts — until now.

Among the ranks of the Constitutional Convention were men such as George Washington, who presided over the proceedings, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison, who is often called the “father of the ...

A restoration of the study of American constitutional forms and their history provides a realistic path back to a truly ...