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The joint resolution creating [the Joint Committee on Reconstruction] intrusted them with a very important inquiry, an inquiry involving a vast deal of attention and labor. They were instructed to ...

Nicholas Gilman attended the Constitutional Convention and served on the committee that adopted an electoral college to choose the president. Nicholas Gilman was born into a prominent New Hampshire ...

Mercy Otis Warren was deeply connected in the world of Massachusetts Revolutionary politics. The sibling of James Otis, she became friends and regular correspondents with many of the state’s leaders, ...

John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) were co-authors of Cato’s Letters (1720-23). Trenchard was a radical Whig. In the 1690s, during the Standing Army Controversy, he wrote two ...

Judges use their reasoning skills to decide what particular laws mean when they rule on cases. Different judges sometimes use different methods to interpret the Constitution, meaning that judges do ...

The Election of 1800 was one of the most important elections in American history. Following a bitter contest, Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams, marking the first time in American history that an ...

William Blackstone (1723-80) was the author of A Discourse on the Study of Law (1758), Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69), and other works. These works were for the most part based on ...