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Discover who James Madison is. Learn about his early life, his key role in the Federalist Papers & Bill of Rights, and his ...
A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...
As Independence Day approaches, it’s worth remembering that America’s Founding Fathers weren’t just fiery revolutionaries — ...
A local social studies teacher has been selected to receive an academic fellowship geared towards promoting study and ...
Even as a tenuous cease-fire between Iran and Israel appears to hold, Democrats in the U.S. Congress are falling over ...
I never knew that enforcement of our federal immigration laws was “despicable,” since I write as one whose grandparents were all immigrants, as well as my father, who came to this country at the age ...
As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...
A sampling of other Declaration of Independence signers who served in the Continental Congress in York between Sept. 30, 1777 ...
When I began writing this weekly column for the Carrier 22+ years ago, one of my goals was to tackle Constitutional issues to ...
The Trump Administration’s inability to identify legal footing for Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to bomb Iran, whether on the originalist premises that his camp sometimes prefers, or others that ...
Founding Father and fourth President of the United States, James Madison, in Federalist Paper number 47, wrote about the need for separation of powers among the branches of the federal ...
A system of checks and balances has been critical to the success of the United States Government for 250 years. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison stated, ...