While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect ... Committee of Style actually drafted the near-final text of the Constitution, composed it at the last moment.

Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in ...

A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” ...

President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House later this month, but some Americans may not know that there is a precise moment when that transition of power takes place.

On Thursday, before the House members could begin reading the Constitution aloud, Democrats raised a question about which text Republicans wanted read, and asked whether it would include the three ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by ... Hamilton observed of the unamended constitutional text in The Federalist No. 84: “Here, in strictness ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution ... in the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the national government.

The 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen J. Shogan, tells CBS News why it will sit next to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights in the U.S. National ...