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Our country is in the midst of an important celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but many ...

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Irish-born Thomas Burke died before his 40th birthday, but the North Carolinian lived long enough to wield sharp tools in constructing America’s foundation. In the spring of 1777, Burke was laboring ...

Washington spends too much, taxes too much, does too much. That’s because of the Constitution, not in spite of it. Thinkpieces lamenting the state of constitutional government are a dime a dozen. If ...

Throughout the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention labored to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new frame of government. While the convention nearly ...

A mural by David Naydock on a building in York, Pa., depicts members of the Continental Congress debating the Articles of Confederation. But the city is perhaps most proud of its claim as the first ...

America under the Articles of Confederation was a mess, not unlike Europe today. Could it lead to a stronger European Union? German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy after ...

As schools across the state celebrate Constitution Day today, it seems especially appropriate to look more closely at the nation’s founding document, particularly because so much of today’s political ...