The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king ...

She continued her response by falsely claiming Texas signed a treaty enacting the “first constitution”: Texas and those 13 original colonies would’ve never signed the treaty that formed the ...

On Jan. 22, the public is invited to the Hillsdale library for “Handwriting the Constitution.” The event is a chance to get ...

And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the first time, promising “equal protection of the laws.” A key feature of the Fourteenth ...

The first is that symmetry should support maintaining ... As concerns the structural constitution, symmetry should often be comparatively easy to apply. A defining feature of recent political ...

The Rappahannock Tribe has become the first tribal nation in the United States to successfully adopt a tribal constitution that recognizes the rights of nature, giving legal protection to the ...