Thomas Jefferson was portrayed by Caleb Tracy and James Madison was portrayed by John Zak in partnership with Historic Philadelphia, Inc. Julie Silverbrook is chief content and learning officer at the ...

SECTION. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or ...

How Was the Bill of Rights Ratified? On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution in a Joint Resolution of Congress. Ten of the proposed 12 ...

Dr. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the defense of liberty requires multiple answers to a fundamental political question: who rules? Mary Sarah Bilder reviews how over two ...

Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School The Sixth Amendment guarantees a cluster of rights designed to make criminal prosecutions more accurate, ...

In September 1787, the founders signed the most influential document in American history, the U.S. Constitution. On Constitution Day, the National Constitution Center presents a series of programs and ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States officially declared its independence from the British Empire when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was ...

The Original Constitution did not include a Bill of Rights. Within the First Congress, James Madison emerged as the leader of the effort to pass one—serving as its primary author and as the driving ...

Charles Pinckney effectively participated in the Constitutional Convention in 1878 and contributed to the final version of the Constitution. He later served as Minister to Spain. Charles Pinckney was ...

President Joe Biden’s recent announcement of several proposed Supreme Court reform measures includes the goal of establishing term limits for the justices. However, the term limits process is ...

Today, Americans are heading to the polls for midterm elections, where the entire House and 35 Senate seats will be up for grabs. So how have these elections panned out in the modern era? Since 1946, ...

The high-stakes fight now unfolding in the Supreme Court over the 2020 census, testing whether everyone in America should be asked about their citizenship, is now intensifying into a major ...