The checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated, yet ...

The First Amendment – and the freedom of speech it guarantees – is considered a fundamental element of American freedom and ...

Irish-born Thomas Burke died before his 40th birthday, but the North Carolinian lived long enough to wield sharp tools in constructing America’s foundation. In the spring of 1777, Burke was laboring ...

The Brennan Center for Justice and the National Constitution Center present a symposium exploring how the Articles of Confederation shaped the U.S. Constitution. Historians, legal scholars, and ...

The Constitution’s framers were informed by colonial practice, which defined ‘executive power’ broadly.

Welcome to a little known (at least by me) story of a short-lived entity that came into being in Franklin County, when folks ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was sold for $9 million at an auction Thursday evening in North Carolina. Brunk ...

Proposed changes in the constitution of the World Zionist Organization. which will be taken up at the forthcoming session of the Zionist Actions Committee to be presented to the World Zionist Congress ...