The Founding Fathers lived in a world of kings and emperors. There was no democracy in their time, and nothing even close since ancient Greece. Men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, well ...

The Anti-Federalists' skepticism of the Constitution shaped the nation's legacy.

The Founding Fathers knew better. They said they wanted no kings. They debated the issue before giving it constitutionally ...

Can Founding Fathers show us the right way? When our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia in the summers of 1774 and 1775, they came with serious differences on several subjects (slavery, states' ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address warned against “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” who would “subvert the power of the people” and usurp authority by flattering prejudices and inflaming ...

The founding fathers ratified the First Amendment in 1791, two years after doing the same to the United States Constitution, ...

America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the ...

The Founding Fathers presumed that the legislature and courts would keep an authoritarian leader in check. Were they right?

Here is a suggested Morning Call publication topic for our upcoming 250th Declaration of Independence (1776) anniversary (2026): Publish the Federalist Papers (1787-1788) alongside historian ...

This month marks Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday. Near the end of his life, he wondered what life would be like “two or three centuries hence.” Well, here we are. What would Franklin make of it? He ...