The US Constitution was written by 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1787. The delegates were elected by the states to revise the ...

The story of the 22nd Amendment, which became part of the Constitution 74 years ago after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was ...

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 ...

Szalai claimed that “Constitution worship” was possibly damaging the American political system ... what the majority 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 ...

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 ...