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

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

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

America’s 249th birthday yesterday was no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, ...

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

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

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 ...

Explore the 7 basic principles of the US Constitution: popular sovereignty, limited government, checks & balances, judicial ...

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