The document opens with one of the great run-on sentences in American history ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Fifty-two words, seven commas ...
As Justice Joseph Story put it in his celebrated Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833 ... and were born of more recent history. The states are forbidden, among other ...
President Donald Trump signed a bevy of executive orders within hours of taking the oath of office on Monday — including one ...
With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.
A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...
For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,' ...
The Constitution of the United States has endured for over two centuries ... Their reservations, as Storing put it, echo still through our political history. It is this understanding, that ...