As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, ... The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus.

A course on our Constitution — what it says and what it means — should be required for high school students at every school, public or private, in the country. Leonard Malkin Detroit. To the ...

Long before President Donald Trump ran for his first term in office, conservative Supreme Court Justice David Souter appeared to glimpse the future in a stunning warning of how democracy could die.

We like to think of the Constitution as eternal. ... The halls of the Philadelphia convention in 1787 echoed repeatedly with usable lessons from the Roman republic and ancient Greece.

Yet well-intentioned legislative measures can become corrupted through time and the demands of political expediency. In 121 BCE, facing a populist uprising from Gaius Gracchus, the Roman Senate ...

Opinion: The Constitution is the sole source of governmental authority. The presidency, unless its constitutional origins and provisions are surrendered or trampled, has no authority beyond that.

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The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the Romans, most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, ... The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus.