Discover the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Learn about the failures of the Articles of Confederation, the Great Compromise, and how the U.S. Constitution was built. In the sweltering summer of 1787, ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It's in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A copy of the U.S. Constitution from 1787 will be sold at auction later ...

A FIRST edition copy of the US Constitution from 1787 is going up for auction and could fetch $20million. The extremely rare edition of the “Bundle of Compromises” is being offered to the deepest ...

A rare copy of the United States Constitution, printed after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, has sold for more than $11 million during a live auction in Asheville, North Carolina, on Thursday ...

"Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution," by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese; Quirk Books, Philadelphia (355 pages, $19.95). (MCT) ...

A republican form of government is based on checks and balances created by the separation of powers. American students are taught this as a good thing. Tyranny is kept at bay by the American system of ...

What did the American Founders actually intend for the country and does it even matter today? William J. Watkins, in Crossroads for Liberty, rescues the Articles of Confederation from obscurity and ...

There is much talk about, and invoking of, the U.S. Constitution these days. But how was it really built? Who were the men who signed it? What was really important to them in that steamy summer of ...