In his first book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding”, journalist Osita Nwanevu ...

America is deeply divided politically, and the signs are everywhere. A recentQuinnipiac University Poll found that 53% of Americans believe democracy is not currently working, while 41% […] ...

Nwanevu makes three main claims: “that democracy is good, that America is not a democracy, and that America should become a ...

The administration has entered its most anti-Constitutional phase yet. We must call a regime that’s a danger to our way of ...

A Republic, If You Can Keep It On the final day of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in 1787, 55 delegates across 12 states gathered to establish a new framework for the United States ...

I am a Republican, but the current Republican Party has shown no interest in working with, or even communicating with, the ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better ...

It's been 249 years since the Second Continental Congress in a hot, stuffy room in Philadelphia put down on paper their reasons for declaring the colonies to be a group of states, united even, ...

Reflecting on the conditions for the maintenance of republican government (what we would today call “democracy”), James Madison observed that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free ...

Republican legislators seem to know more about what is best for Missouri than the citizens who voted. Big Brother legislators want to change our Constitution every time the voters approve something ...