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“Colorblindness,” an ideology that denies race as an organizing principle of the nation’s structural order, reaches back to the drafting of the US Constitution.

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.

While New York has yet to break away from the rest of the country, it's not for lack of trying.

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.

The origin story of “one nation, indivisible.”

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.

How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.

A conversation about changing the American story.

The U.S. Constitution was the reason for Madison and Hamilton's breakup.

In her new book, Colley shows how written constitutions developed both as a way to further justify rulers and to turn rebellions into legitimate governments.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.