Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Ratification The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier Simon & Schuster, 608 pp., $30 As hard as it is to believe, this is the first complete history ever written about the ...

Madison, Wisconsin, Nov. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...

The morning after -- "Take this or nothing" -- A war of printed words : the national debate begins -- The Pennsylvania ratifying convention- with Delaware, New Jersey, and Georgia -- "We the people" ...

Five decades ago, originalism wasn’t even an -ism. In the academy, at the bar, and on the courts, the Constitution was interpreted as a living, breathing document. Contemporary values mattered more ...

During the Constitution ratification debates between the Federalists (who supported ratification) and the Anti-Federalists (who opposed it), one of the most strident areas of disagreement was the ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

WASHINGTON – Employees inside the former home of the National Women’s Party, now the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument, switched from activists to National Park Service rangers in 2016. Crowds ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...

During the Constitution ratification debates between the Federalists (who supported ratification) and the Anti-Federalists (who opposed it), one of the most strident areas of disagreement was the ...