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Read six different versions of the Gettysburg Address

by NCC Staff

There were five versions of the Gettysburg Address that were acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln in his lifetime. Here are those…

Read six different versions of the Gettysburg Address
Excerpt: America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare

by Jeffrey Rosen

In this excerpt from The Atlantic’s October 2018 print edition, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen…

Excerpt: America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare
10 fascinating facts about the National Park Service

by NCC Staff

Today marks the anniversary of the 1916 Organic Act that created the National Park Service. So how much has the Park Service grown…

10 fascinating facts about the National Park Service
Justice Kennedy’s last task: something familiar

by Lyle Denniston

Lyle Denniston looks at a case about environmental rights filed by teenagers that could lead to one of Justice Anthony M.…

Justice Kennedy’s last task: something familiar
How Dr. King cited the Constitution in his Mountaintop speech

by NCC Staff

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his last public speech, which referenced the Bible and the Constitution. His…

How Dr. King cited the Constitution in his Mountaintop speech
Remembering the day Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution

by NCC Staff

December 12 is a big anniversary for those of us in Pennsylvania: It’s the day the James Wilson led an emotional effort to…

Remembering the day Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution
The Anti-Federalists and their important role during the Ratification fight

by Ugonna Eze

On this day in 1787, the debate over the newly written Constitution began in the press after an anonymous writer in the New York…

The Anti-Federalists and their important role during the Ratification fight
The debate over Confederate monuments and how to remember the Civil War

by Nicandro Iannacci

The removal of four public symbols of the Confederacy in New Orleans highlights the crucial difference between history and memory.

The debate over Confederate monuments and how to remember the Civil War
What the Founders thought about impeachment and the President

by Scott Bomboy

One of the most hotly debated clauses in the Constitution deals with the removal of federal government officials through the…

What the Founders thought about impeachment and the President
Could California really become its own country?

by Scott Bomboy

There is now a movement afoot by a group seeking a ballot referendum in California for that state to become its own sovereign…

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