Two Massachusetts legislative heavy hitters are racing to rescind decades-old resolutions they say conservative groups could ...

State archivists recently uncovered jailhouse records detailing the imprisonment of 35 participants in Shays’ Rebellion — a 1786-1787 armed uprising in western Massachusetts — hidden among decades of ...

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

I love the First Amendment. I mean that literally. For me, it is the soul of the Constitution, safeguarding the fundamental ...

While his ascent to City Hall has been described as a triumph of representation and progressive politics, Mamdani is ...

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There were 11 women delegates from both political parties who served during Michigan's 1961 Constitutional Convention. Next year, Michigan voters will weigh in on whether the state should hold a ...

Earlier this year, the Montana legislature almost took the whole country another step toward a constitutional crisis. A resolution that passed through a Senate committee before stalling on the floor ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitutional Convention finished writing and signed the U.S. Constitution. Beginning with the words “We the people,” the Constitution stands as ...