When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.

Virginia's flag, and the motto it bears, sic semper tyrannis, offer valuable lessons that are still relevant today.

The Justice Bell rang on Sept. 25, 1920, announcing passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which ...

George Mason, who participated in the Constitutional Convention and also drafted Virginia ... the Minds of the People,” he had written in a 1776 letter, “or there can be no Republican ...

For example, North Carolina’s 1776 constitution declared that ... Instead of accepting failure, they held a constitutional convention without government sanction and raised a militia to ...

George Mason, who participated in the Constitutional Convention and also drafted Virginia ... the Minds of the People,” he had written in a 1776 letter, “or there can be no Republican ...

The ongoing assault on the American ideal is a time for dissent, not celebration. A republic born out of revolution is ...

If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. In that speech, the first before lawmakers of Trump’s second ...

At 19, I demonstrated against that war at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ... He would not only be tearing up our Constitution, he would be seizing power and governing without ...