Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

Local groups want an apology after Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith made comments defending the 1787 Three-Fifths Compromise, ...

adopted in 1776 at the state’s Constitutional Convention. The article explains that the seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus stepping on a supine tyrant above the state motto “Sic Semper ...

Concretely, this meant that during the era of the US Constitutional Convention, when the debate between the Federalists ... See Thomas Jefferson, “Image 1 of Thomas Jefferson, June 1776, Rough Draft ...

The number of scholars, civic and religious leaders pleading for respectful pluralism has expanded in recent years. It’s not ...

Five years after Lexington and Concord, he wrote a constitution for Massachusetts ... In 2020, enraged by the 1619 Project, Trump launched a “1776 Commission” designed to write a right ...

issues that would not begin to be resolved until the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Amid all this upheaval, Reed launched an investigation into the military governor’s conduct. The ...

We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States ... to be heard… “It must also comply with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture.” Trump’s ...

This is where Delaware declared its independence from both Great Britain and Pennsylvania on June 15, 1776—a full 19 days before the ... Photo Credit: Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau ...