Each winter as the Christmas rush settles down and the new year is just around the corner, many of us begin to think about New Year’s resolutions. My thoughts also turn toward the coming legislative ...

Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated ...

Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the ...

“I certainly would not want a Constitutional Convention. I mean whoa. Who knows what would come out of that.” — Justice Antonin Scalia, April 17, 2014. Two hundred and thirty-five years ago America ...

User-Created Clip by swifta November 5, 2018 2015-04-25T20:00:26-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/23f/20150425200041003_hd.jpgProfessor Jack Rakove talked about ...

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