In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835 that “the greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her ...

The Founding Founders of the United States of America listed several of their goals in the Preamble to the Constitution, which provides a clear statement of what they hoped to achieve. We should ...

When I was in fifth grade, I was caught cheating on a test. The test was identifying the state capitals, and it was my third time taking the test. I still can’t tell you the state capitals. Shortly ...

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

Fellow citizens, with the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, let’s consider this new preamble to the Constitution composed by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.: “We the billionaires, and our King, in order to ...

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution and shaped the future of the nascent United States. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure Zachary Clary - Historian ...

But since the country’s founding, constitutional meaning has never emerged solely from an elite cadre of justices. Nor has ...

Post columnist Ian Rowe, founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, has his students begin the school day by reciting the Preamble to the Constitution. National Archives via AP, File In “Democracy in ...