Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
A โcallโ to an interstate convention is an invitation for state representatives to meet at a particular time and place to discuss prescribed issues. During the Founding Era,ย convention calls were issuedย by the Continental and Confederation Congresses, by prior...
The Republic was not Kept: Benjamin Franklin’s Constitution Day Prediction
“A republic โฆ if you can keep it” September 17, 1787 – the day the constitution was signed. We all know Benjamin Franklin’s famous line. But he wasn’t warning us about the government. He wasn’t even warning about the constitution....
The Great Bypass: How the Constitution Was Built to Sideline the States
โThis Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, states, in their political capacity.โ With that one sentence, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth identified the single most important and least understood feature of the Constitution. It wasnโt just a...