Even before the Great Depression hit the US, much of the rural population, particularly the Native Americans, were already in miserable economic state. The Native Americans spoke out and fought for their rights. […]
When the state electors met on February 4, 1789, all of them cast their first ballot for Washington—a total of 69 votes; Adams was “duly elected Vice President”. […]
James Madison and his fellow Federalists had obtained the most important of the state ratifications, and only at the price of pledging themselves to add a bill of rights. […]
The Constitution’s decaying momentum set an unhappy stage for what everyone understood would be the ultimate test of the Constitution in Virginia. […]
Three elements were working in the Constitution’s favor as it prepared to make its long and dangerous passage of the state ratifying conventions. […]
Some Native Americans took a direct approach of relating the protection of traditional practices to the rights that U.S. citizens held dear. […]
In the very first Federalist, Hamilton laid down six themes by which Publius would demonstrate the indispensability of the new Constitution. […]
James Wilson didn’t actually spend much time explaining or elucidating, but punched back at the anti-Constitutionalists’ arguments. […]
On October 7, 1787, George Mason wrote to George Washington regarding his objections to the new Constitution. Washington was not amused. […]
The American Constitution was, and is, remarkable just for being written. It is also unique for the way it divides sovereignty. […]
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