Pennsylvania became a place where people of different faiths sought to live together under laws that protected religious freedom while cultivating civic life. Yet that experiment was also marked by ...

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as chair of the United ...

On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will begin its new term with one of the biggest cases on its docket.

Two petitions filed in recent months at the Supreme Court seek to settle the question of the ability of Congress to ban the ...

Thomas Jefferson was portrayed by Caleb Tracy and James Madison was portrayed by John Zak in partnership with Historic Philadelphia, Inc. Julie Silverbrook is chief content and learning officer at the ...

George Clymer was a successful businessman from Philadelphia with no formal education. He signed the Declaration and also attended 1787 Constitutional Convention. George Clymer was born in ...

Gordon S. Wood reviews why the Declaration of Independence’s assertion that governments derive their just powers from “the consent of the governed” was one of the most important issues in the ...

William Paca was a lawyer who became a vocal critic of British policies. He supported Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence. William Paca was the third child and second son of John and ...

George Taylor was sent to Philadelphia to replace delegates who had refused to sign the Declaration. Taylor signed the engrossed copy on August 2, 1776. George Taylor is one of the rare examples of ...

Oliver Wolcott, the youngest son of Connecticut Governor Roger and Sarah Drake Wolcott, was born in Windsor Connecticut on November 20, 1726. He graduated from Yale College in 1747 and then accepted a ...

Dr. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the defense of liberty requires multiple answers to a fundamental political question: who rules? In Federalist No. 47, in the course of ...

“[H]istory showed that the way tyrants had eliminated a militia consisting of all the able-bodied men was not by banning the militia but simply by taking away the people’s arms, enabling a select ...