Connecticut turns 237 years old today. Here's the story of how it became a state
In fact, Connecticut became a state on Jan. 9, 1788 - 237 years ago today. However, the state's history extends back much ...
Grab a pen and paper: It’s time to handwrite the U.S. Constitution in Portland
On Jan. 22, the public is invited to the Hillsdale library for “Handwriting the Constitution.” The event is a chance to get ...
On This Day, Jan. 2: Georgia is 4th of original 13 colonies to ratify Constitution
Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union.
Clipped video shared to falsely claim opposition leader 'insulted author of Indian constitution'
As an Indian minister was criticised for his "disrespectful" remarks on Bhimrao Ambedkar -- one of the architects of India's ...
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The Bill of Rights Was a Concession to Popular Struggles
Early US elites drafted the Constitution to check democratic uprisings that threatened the power of the ruling class. The ...
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Most Americans Can’t Answer These Simple Constitution Questions
The last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the US Constitution, Rhode Island finally agreed to the document on May 19, 1790. The delay resulted from delegates from the state being initially ...
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Equality and The Fourteenth Amendment: A New Constitution
And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the first time, promising “equal protection of the laws.” A key feature of the Fourteenth ...
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Symmetry in Interpreting the First Amendment and the Structural Constitution
The first is that symmetry should support maintaining ... As concerns the structural constitution, symmetry should often be comparatively easy to apply. A defining feature of recent political ...
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Machines that printed first copies of the Constitution sold as scrap
This article has been republished from a curated selection of our coverage to mark Constitution Day.] The Monarch model of the printing machine that printed the first thousand copies of the ...