With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional Convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention occurred in 1787, several years ...

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics,” he wrote, “the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending ...

This term, the Supreme Court is considering a case that can change the entire structure of the US constitutional system, putting the president in policy control of all the agencies of the government’s ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Is there diversity in the American Constitution? Michael Barone explains the origin of his theory. In this episode of "The Civic Discourse Project" lecture series, Michael D. Barone, a senior ...

In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become. By Claire Rydell Arcenas Claire Rydell ...