When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − ...

Yet he liked the resulting Constitution enough to become chief advocate for its approval by the states. Hamilton wrote the bulk of the essays that argued most convincingly for ratification.

12 Douglass knew that the American people and their state and federal governments fell short when it came to honoring and enforcing those rules. But where critics of the Constitution went wrong ...

As originally written by a small group of America’s richest and most powerful White men, the Constitution provided zero ...

In 1856, in the infamous Dred Scott decision that declared that Black people could not be American citizens ... by assuming that the written Constitution is to be interpreted in the light of ...

Clayton James once wrote that he decided to undertake ... imagined that a few months later, his young American staff would write an entirely new constitution, one that has governed Japanese ...