In these pieces, I will strive to explain how The Founders, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, set up our system ...

An appreciation of the Preamble begins with a comparison of it to its counterpart in the compact the Constitution replaced, the Articles of Confederation. There, the states joined in “a firm ...

Borrowed from our first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the foreign-emoluments clause has two purposes. First is the preservation of republican simplicity. Titles of nobility ...

The Constitution describes the duties and obligations of the three federal branches of government. If you hear it mentioned ...

After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing constitution. Instead, the delegates proposed an entirely different system of ...

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Articles of ...

In addition to the Constitution, Brunk Auctions will also offer several other notable historical items. These include a first draft of the 1776 Articles of Confederation and a 1788 journal from ...

When the Constitution was drafted ... Also attached is a resolution from the Confederation Congress to send the document to the states to ratify. According to the listing on the Brunk website ...