“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.

What would the framers of the Constitution have thought about President Trump’s maximalist view of executive power? I ...

"This public institution in our democracy cannot continue operating with no check and no accountability." ...

Some of the most significant founding documents in U.S. history have touched down in Denver as part of a national tour, and ...

The earliest days of American politics are somewhat lionized, mythologized through years of disconnection and remembered best ...

Policymakers see the country’s 250th anniversary as a chance to bolster civics education. Educators say they face challenges ...

George Washington, the war hero of the revolution, was elected president of the convention unanimously.

Dale Pullen’s posthumously published book embodies his lifelong campaign to make Americans take Constitution Day more ...

The evolution in America of rationales for the cascading growth of presidential power, which began in earnest in the post-war ...

Theodore Sedgwick distrusted democracy, feared political equality and believed society should be guided by educated, propertied elites. Yet at a moment when partisan fury threatened to break the ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is, in effect, the culmination and fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.

Mixed messages leave community uncertain Reading at the Rock in Rockrimmon, Colorado Springs, will celebrate its first anniversary on May 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. COS Reads, a nonprofit organization, ...