As the countdown begins to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, what principles can unite these United States?

A knowledgeable, committed and vigilant electorate is what ensures that the freedom we love will be passed on to posterity.

As a military chaplain, defending the Constitution of the United State sometimes involves defending those you disagree with, ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant part to keep partisan passions at bay, constitutional drift fuels partisan ...

When disappeared people are deported to unsafe countries, it violates the norm against the forcible return of people to likely persecution found in Article 33 of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its ...

South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

"...This approach of working together was repeated earlier today by President Thabo Mbeki in a seminal speech which he ...

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that a Texas law requiring ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

In the heart of the city, in 1784 David Landreth founded the D. Landreth Seed Company. During its long life, Landreth’s ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...