Nicholas Gilman attended the Constitutional Convention and served on the committee that adopted an electoral college to choose the president. Nicholas Gilman was born into a prominent New Hampshire ...

The Tenth Circuit said the program complied with the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, rejecting ...

A challenge to a formula used by a county outside of Washington, D.C., to determine who can attend public magnet schools ...

The National Constitution Center today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Hiram E. Chodosh, President ...

This program is presented in partnership with The Journal of the Civil War Era. Robert D. Bland is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Requiem for ...

The joint resolution creating [the Joint Committee on Reconstruction] intrusted them with a very important inquiry, an inquiry involving a vast deal of attention and labor. They were instructed to ...

John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) were co-authors of Cato’s Letters (1720-23). Trenchard was a radical Whig. In the 1690s, during the Standing Army Controversy, he wrote two ...

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 Representative in ...

In 1838, Abraham Lincoln delivered this address to the Young Men’s Lyceum, a debating society in Springfield, Illinois, in the wake of growing mob violence, including the 1837 killing of abolitionist ...

Natural Rights: Natural rights are rights that are given by God or by nature. They come not from a law passed by the government but rather are inherent in all individual human beings from birth. Rule ...

Richard Dobbs Spaight attended every session at the Constitutional Convention. and endorsed its decision to enact a more effective government. He later died after a duel with a political opponent.

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