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Trump’s Attorneys Have Butchered a Crucial Founder’s Take on Impeachment

Gouverneur Morris’s views changed during the Constitutional Convention — setting a good example for senators today.
by William M. Treanor via Made By History on January 31, 2020
Andrew Johnson impeachment.

The Common Misconception About ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’

The constitutional standard for impeachment is different from what’s at play in a regular criminal trial.
by Frank O. Bowman III via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019
Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.
by Timothy Sandefur via Reason on August 21, 2019
U.S. Constitution

The President Who Would Not Be King

Executive power and the Constitution.
by Michael W. McConnell via Stanford Lawyer on June 26, 2019
Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019
George Washington is depicted in the 1856 painting "George Washington Addressing the Constitutional Convention" by Junius Brutus Stearns.

‘The President Himself May Be Guilty’: Why Pardons Were Hotly Debated By The Founding Fathers

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.
by Erick Trickey via Retropolis on April 21, 2019

How Did the Constitution Become America’s Authoritative Text?

A new history of the early republic explores the origins of originalism.
by Karen J. Greenberg via The Nation on February 7, 2019

What Did the Founders Mean by “Democracy”?

The main issue they were debating was how democratic a representative body should be. And their answer was “not very democratic at all.”
by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on October 30, 2018

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."
by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018
Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The Original Theory of Constitutionalism

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?
by David Singh Grewal, Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Yale Law Journal on January 24, 2018

Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.
by Douglas Massey via Public Books on November 8, 2017
Original printing of the Articles of Confederation in a glass display case at Williams College in 2007.

‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution

What the political crisis in post-revolutionary America has to teach us about our own time.
by Richard Kreitner, George William Van Cleve via The Nation on October 23, 2017
Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The Gun Argument That’s Not Even Wrong

Why the “Founders’ Intent” doesn’t matter.
by Yonatan Zunger via NewCo Shift on October 2, 2017

Impeachment, American Style

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?
by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Yorker on September 20, 2017
Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.
by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017

Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on November 14, 2016

Were the Framers Democrats?

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.
by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Rambler on October 31, 2016
Poster for U.S. Census reading "Have your papers ready," featuring Uncle Sam writing in book
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Beyond Numbers: A History of the U.S. Census

To mark the culmination of Census 2010, we explore the fascinating story of how Americans have counted themselves.
via BackStory on December 22, 2010
Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Prior Convictions

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on April 14, 2008
Ken Burns

What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns 

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.
by Jack Rakove via Washington Monthly on December 18, 2025
A jury box in a courtroom.
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Does a Jury Need to Have 12 Members?

Why jury size matters.
by Wanling Su via Made By History on December 17, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts

John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
by Matt Ford via The New Republic on December 12, 2025
Thomas Paine alongside the front cover of "Common Sense"

Thomas Paine, Common Sense and a Plan for America

The constitutional ideas in Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet.
by Jett Conner via Journal of the American Revolution on November 20, 2025
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1777) holding a book.

A Republic, If We Can Afford It

The framers of the United States Constitution envisoned economic discipline that they thought was a requirement for a republic to endure.
by Larry Schwartz via Public Seminar on November 6, 2025
Kaleidoscopic portrait of Eliza Schuyler.

The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
Illustration of a Revolution, of a mob holding forks and knives, fighting men on horses.

The Insurrection Problem

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
Portrait of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond reading by a tree.

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery.
by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
Bouquet of funerary flowers on top of the Constitution.

How Originalism Killed the Constitution

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
by Jill Lepore via The Atlantic on September 10, 2025
An abolitionist lithograph depicting enslaved people celebrating the Fourth of July while a white judge sits on bales of cotton with his feet on the Constitution, 1840

The Contradictory Revolution

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on July 31, 2025
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