Today’s Republican members of Congress and conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have apparently forgotten about ...

Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a ...

When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison made an early-summer tour of the Northeast, they became closer friends while seeking ...

A local social studies teacher has been selected to receive an academic fellowship geared towards promoting study and ...

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The promise of America, July Fourth, Independence Day, is not only in the fireworks, cookouts and family bonding that we all ...

Re: “Abbott clears way for Ten Commandments in schools,” Metro, June 26: Gov. Greg Abbott is so fixated on displaying the Ten ...