At the time, Americans weren’t agreed on which day to celebrate. In an article for American Heritage, historian Pauline Maier ...

“The 1776 report,” Civil War historian Kevin Levin wrote,” views students as sponges who are expected to absorb a narrative ...

Lists containing the names of some of the U.S. Founding Fathers and their respective ages on July 4, 1776, the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted, have circulated online since at ...

1776 has repeatedly been invoked by Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, ... the Articles of Confederation and then the Constitution "are all written by men who mostly -- not all ...

That 1776 Constitution of Maryland employed the same division of governmental powers into separate branches, each serving as a check on the others, with a provision stating that they “ought to ...

The copy of the U.S. Constitution, one of only a handful known to exist, was found two years ago at a former plantation in Edenton, North Carolina.

In Pennsylvania, for instance, unlike Massachusetts and Connecticut, the 1776 constitution confirmed any existing right held by “religious societies” to conduct public schools, and a revised ...

For we are facing an American crisis the likes we have not seen since 1776. This is especially a crisis that tries the soul of attorneys and those of us who believe in the Constitution, the Bill ...

For example, North Carolina’s 1776 constitution declared that “all political power is vested in and derived from the people only,” while the writers of the U.S. Constitution rejected an ...

On July 4, 1776, the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain. ... The final version was sent to printer John Dunlap on July 4, 1776, according to the National Constitution Center.

Capehart called the move “a fundamental attack on our Constitution” and claimed it threatened the very foundation of the United States. ... 1776–1787, the design was intentional, ...

It is reported that Benjamin Franklin, following the signing of the Constitution in September of 1787, was asked by Elizabeth Willing Powel, “Well, ... We Rejected Monarchy in 1776.