Even a somewhat informed observer might wonder why President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who control all three branches ...

George Washington sought oaths ... protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It sat that way until the closing days of the Convention. Washington’s copy, marked up as it ...

The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, when George Washington had yet to be elected as the United States’ first president. Still ...

Thus the signers subscribed their names “In witness” to what was “Done in Convention,” and, with the exception of George Washington ... Independence of the United States of America ...

Washington’s birthday – also lovingly called Presidents’ Day – a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...

That famous description of George Washington ... seeking the candidacy, Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the Constitution. He serves two terms ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1 (SJ 1), a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend the United States ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War.