We recognize Constitution Day — September 17 — to celebrate more than just words on parchment. The Constitution represents a turn in human history away from authoritarianism and toward individual ...

CHARLESTOWN (AP) - The U.S.S. Constitution Museum has acquired more than 150 documents, including correspondence from President George Washington's secretary of war and the leader of the Haitian ...

With the nation locked in debates over Confederate symbols, the very document that laid out the legal framework of a government built to preserve slavery will spend its 160th anniversary where it ...

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the ...

Orange Coast College will celebrate “Constitution Day” throughout the week with lectures, events and debates from legal scholars centered on the significance and the pitfalls of the 226-year-old ...

The U.S.S. Constitution Museum has acquired more than 150 documents, including correspondence from President George Washington’s secretary of war and the leader of the Haitian Revolution, that shed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — September 17th, 2019 marks 238 years since the United State Constitution was signed and made its mark in history. The United States Constitution is considered one of the most ...

The seminal moment at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 bridged the divide between the big and small states by establishing the bicameral legislature structure still in place today. The so-called ...

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is not happy that conservatives are claiming the mantle of the Constitution. “You cannot talk for very long to a conservative these days without hearing the words ...

The United States Constitution does not guarantee democracy. This may be surprising. After all, we learned in school that the Constitution is the foundational source of our democracy and our freedom.