The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

A century after 19th Amendment, Gloria Steinem on what challenges remain Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not ...

Next year our nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from then world super power ...

Every vote truly matters," said Monica Schaffer. She helped start a new unit of the League of Women Voters in the Wasatch ...

The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...

Recipients will be honored during the program — which will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26 — in the Muncie City Hall auditorium.

Wong Kim Ark was not the only Chinese American San Franciscan — or even the first — to shape a fundamental part of the 14th Amendment. The San Francisco cook’s late 19th-century struggle ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

The fact that the city of Charleston has an ordinance titled “First Amendment Demonstrations” recognizes that citizens have a ...

A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary conversations about women’s suffrage.

California should allow non-residents to apply for concealed handgun licenses in the state, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.