The Founding Fathers lived in a world of kings and emperors. There was no democracy in their time, and nothing even close since ancient Greece. Men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, well ...

The first time I grasped what a constitution does was in a crowded lecture hall at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law — the neoclassical building in my home city where generations have ...

The rights of the individual and the separation of powers are core constitutional principles. Both are being challenged.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where was America founded? The U.S. Constitution was drafted at the 1789 Congress in Philadelphia — the same place where the ...

It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to notice that something was missing on the Library of Congress website that annotates the United States Constitution. Reddit users pointed out on Wednesday ...

For quite some time, the leftist political establishment has been accusing President Trump of abandoning the US Constitution. Now they have me wondering why that’s supposed to be a criticism. A ...

The American Revolution is over, and delegates convene to create a new system of government. The American Revolution has ended, but the newly United States teeters on the brink of fracturing.

Friday was Constitution Day by act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon reflection it is a ...

Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...

Principal characters -- The Constitutional Convention of 1787: a chronology -- The crisis -- The indispensable men of the Convention -- The delay that produced a revolution -- The Convention opens for ...