First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term in 1940 there was a longstanding American tradition that presidents ...

Her surprising drama about the founding document encourages a wider view of American justice American ... dive into the mind-set of the men who wrote the Constitution, who was left out of it ...

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 ...

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.

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