On the anniversary of Oliver Ellsworth’s birth, Constitution Daily looks back an important founder who helped forge a compromise that led to the Constitution and later played important roles in the ...
On this day in 1789, the Senate passed legislation setting up a federal judiciary system for the new nation. The U.S. Constitution, which had recently been adopted, barely mentions the judiciary’s ...
NOTHING in recent history is more interesting or dramatic than the steady, irresistible movement of races and peoples toward individual freedom through national union. Thus arose the Dominion of ...