In 1787 delegates from the original 13 states met in Philadelphia and proposed a new constitution ... The Cincinnati Inquirer ...

A reader would not be well advised to turn to it for an introduction to Madison’s life, the Philadelphia Convention, the Constitution, or any other subject. It is instead a kind of biography of ...

A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the ...

Forging unity is the ongoing work of American life. After an election, after an arduous legislative process, after more than ...

Your vote in this election will become part of a thread woven throughout America’s providential history stretching back to ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The voters have cast their ballots, and after those ballots have been counted, and a winner has been projected by news organizations, that’s not the conclusion of the election. The ...

Calling for a convention to amend the Constitution might actually be the best way to create a new one. After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of ...

More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the ...

Voters are heading to the polls at a moment when honest, independent news coverage risks being drowned out by partisan voices ...

First, a bit of history. In May 1787, the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of ...

Here's why presidential candidates have to concentrate on a handful of swing states and why the winner of the popular vote ...