Starting with the Bill of Rights, the Constitution contains 27 amendments that help provide unalienable rights to all ...

Now that the right has abandoned the Founders, the Harris-Walz campaign has the chance to flaunt this winning rebrand. They should take it.

Samuel Johnston, the governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789 owned the farm - and oversaw the state convention that ratified the Constitution. One hundred copies of the U.S. Constitution were ...

He was the governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789 and oversaw the state convention during his last year in office that ...

The property was being cleared after being sold to the state when the Constitution was discovered. Hayes Farm was owned by Samuel Johnston – the governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789 ...

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One of the first laws Congress passed, in 1789, imposed tariffs on imports ... And it wasn’t until 1913 that the Constitution ...

He was the governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789 and oversaw the state convention during his last year in office that ratified the Constitution.The copy was found inside a squat ...

Voting in the 19th century usually involved casting a printed paper ballot. State election laws typically specified the dimensions and thickness of the paper, and the size of type to be used. The rest ...

President-elect Donald Trump is already toying with the idea of pursuing a third term in office — in direct violation of the ...

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, printed 237 years ago, is set to be auctioned Thursday in North Carolina. The document, which was sent to the states for ratification after the Constitutional ...

The Supreme Court decided Marbury v, Madison (herein Marbury) in 1803, early in Chief Justice John Marshall’s career on the ...