16 Choice Quotes from James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”
March 4th marks the anniversary of the beginning of government under the U.S. Constitution in 1789. It seldom gets any popular attention. But it certainly deserves some, especially in an ...
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Refuting 12 Common Claims Against The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Critics of the Second Amendment often highlight the state of technology in which it was written insofar as firearms were concerned. At the time, one-shot muskets and rifles were cutting ...
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Constitutionalism: Why it Matters
From the Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship The principles of the Declaration of Independence constitute the soul of the American Founding and form the moral basis of government in ...
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Originalist Perspective
by David F. Forte, Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Written constitutionalism implies that those who make, interpret, and enforce the law ought to be guided by the meaning ...
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On this day in 1770
Today in history, Mar. 5, 1770, a violent incident unfolded on Boston’s King Street, where an agitated group of colonists swarmed around a group of British regulars. This came to ...
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15 Supreme Court Decisions that Shredded the Constitution
When the Court traded law and liberty for political expediency by Sean Rosenthal, published at the Foundation for Economic Education What makes a Supreme Court decision bad? And what are ...
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On this day in 1788, Massachusetts Became the 6th State to Ratify Constitution
On this day in 1788, Massachusetts became the 6th state to ratify the new Constitution for the United States, but it was a close call. There were many opponents who ...
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Importance of the Founding Documents
No documents have had a greater influence on the citizens of our country than the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. The Declaration of Independence marked the birth of ...
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by Matthew Spalding, Associate Vice President at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship The creation of the United States Constitution—John Adams described the Constitutional Convention as "the greatest single ...
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Reading the Bill of Rights
Reading the Bill of Rights, the first amendments of the US Constitution
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