Discover who is called the Father of the U.S. Constitution. Learn about his key contributions, including the Federalist Papers, the Bill of Rights, and his theory of checks and balances.

Ours is the story of a band of American patriots who united together to declare independence from the most powerful nation in ...

Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...

The rights of the individual and the separation of powers are core constitutional principles. Both are being challenged.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...