The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution ... Because the Constitution created a government of limited and enumerated powers, the Framers initially believed that a bill ...
The Constitution was born in crisis, when the very existence of the new United States was in jeopardy. The Framers understood the gravity of their task. As Alexander Hamilton noted in the general ...
The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king ...
Could that be happening in the United States? The question is urgent ... No single article of the Constitution is more important, the Framers believed, because, if you couldn’t revise a ...
President Joe Biden used his pardon power on Thursday as the Constitution’s framers had intended: as a pre-Christmas act of mercy. This is a stark contrast to Mr. Biden’s ill-considered pardon of his ...
WASHINGTON— In response to President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, both for crimes for which he has been convicted and for potential crimes for which he may face prosecution, Freedom House ...
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution ... in the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the national government.