Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the ...

Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – ...

U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has filed legislation that would direct the secretary of the Interior to carve the ...

Even U.S. presidents enjoy a frosty brew now and then. However, one recent commander-in-chief loved his suds so much he ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do ...