The chaos under the Articles of Confederation, Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention revealing fierce debates over slavery and the three-fifths compromise, critics warning against the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "America's Founding" tells the nation's origin story of how our democracy was born. Sarah Winski is the Senior Director of ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Do you remember that before July 4, 1776, 99% of the people living in the world and 99% of those who had lived and were dead, had lived as slaves, serfs, peasants or indentured servants, and that only ...