After being impeached, President Andrew Johnson survived his 1868 Senate trial by just one vote. And to this day, how that vote…
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, which marked the end of a long debate and…
On June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in…
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Earlier in Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s legal career, he represented the government as deputy solicitor general in a 1992…
The late Justice Byron White famously said that with each new justice, there is a new Supreme Court. Americans soon will be able…
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Today, we launch a new series on Constitution Daily remembering “Forgotten Founders,” from the ratification period through the…
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
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