In 1786, the young United States of America was nearly ripped apart by Shays’ Rebellion. Angry farmers suffering from debt ...

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 was James Madison's record of the daily debates ... gratified by the publication in 1840 of James Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention, ...

The weak spot in our system, it turns out, may be the judicial branch of government.

This copy was printed after the Constitutional Convention approved the proposed framework of the nation's government in 1787 and it was ratified by the Congress of the ineffective first American ...

Brunk Auctions in North Carolina is selling a copy of the U.S. Constitution that’s dated 1787 and was found in a filing ...

Asheville, N.C. — Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It's in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean ...