James McHenry mostly attended the later part of the Constitutional Convention, and then campaigned vigorously for it at the Maryland state Convention. James McHenry was born in Ireland in 1753, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has announced which cases and controversies it will consider during arguments from October to December 2026 ...

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

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

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 ...

John Locke (1632-1704) was the author of A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), Two Treatises on Government (1690), and other works. In the period ...

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was a loyal Federalist and he was a leading nationalist at the Constitutional Convention. Pinckney later served as Minister to France and ran for President. Charles ...

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 ...

In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of ...