Why is the United States Constitution the world’s longest surviving written charter of government in the world? Could it be because of the three branches of government, mapped out in Articles, I, II ...

This is the language of the 27th Amendment. This amendment was included as one of the Bill of Rights when submitted to Congress in 1789. Unlike the first 10 amendments, the amendment was not ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United ...

“Article the First” may sound a bit Yoda-like, but it was actually the first provision in the original proposal for the Bill of Rights. The amendment, which the first Congress approved in ...