That was the position taken by those who came to be known as the Federalists. They thought that adding a bill of rights to ...

Can Trump override the Senate? The system of separation of powers in the US is as old as the Constitution itself. With it, the founding fathers set up a system of "checks and balances" to limit ...

A “constitutional county” refers to a county government that declares its intention to uphold the United States Constitution ...

After 60 years, the Voting Rights Act is hanging on by a thread Of all the rights the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us in the Constitution, voting rights for people other than white men with property ...

SPRINGFIELD, MO. -- Earl Taylor has spent 31 years teaching that "the Founding Fathers have answers to nearly every problem we have in America today." Only in recent months has he found so many ...

Wayne Wilson: U.S. Founding Fathers fought for freedom of — and from — religion Our nation’s founders were not an homogenous group on the subject of religion.

Object Details Author Bernstein, Richard B. 1956- Contents Chronology -- Words, images, meanings -- Contexts: the history that made the Founding Fathers -- Achievements and challenges: the history the ...