Most Americans, however, will associate America’s 250th with Philadelphia on Independence Day 2026. Though unfair to all the ...

It’s terribly complicated. Law is made by the common action of three different institutions — the House of Representatives, the Senate and the presidency — chosen by different groups of people at ...

This story was originally published on July 4, 2024. IDAHO FALLS – There was a “pensive and awful silence” as John Hancock ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

The convention had just reached its monumental high point, and the 40-year-old attorney from Massachusetts excitedly wrote ...

The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria ...

COMMENTARY: ‘We, the People’ have a lot of work to do to get our act together, so that we can celebrate the USA’s 250th ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

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

Opinion: The Commander in Clause affords the president no authority whatever to initiate military hostilities on behalf of ...

After successive recommendations by the Constitutional Convention and the newly-established Confederation Congress, a ...