As taught in schools, the history of the U.S. Constitution is relatively straightforward. In 1787, a group of 55 men gathered in Philadelphia to debate the rules that would govern the new nation. Over ...

(CBS/AP) MOUNT VERNON, Va. - After buying it at auction for nearly $10 million, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate is displaying the Founding Father's annotated copy of the Constitution. The ...

A seven-page letter signed by George Washington, urging a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress to help ratify the Constitution, fetched just under $1.5 million at an auction Friday.

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — After buying it at auction for nearly $10 million, George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is displaying the Founding Father’s annotated copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights ...

Every year, thousands of students across the nation take part in civics and history competitions. They work tirelessly to study the United States Constitution, American history and government so they ...

Loren Culp is the Republican candidate running for governor against Democratic incumbent Jay Inslee this November. Culp has claimed that “mask mandates” go against the Washington state constitution.

A letter on God and the Constitution written by George Washington is up for sale after spending decades in a private collection. The letter to Richard Peters, speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is ...

The success of the American Republic is directly traceable to the wisdom and work of the 55 men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft a constitution designed not so much to empower government, ...

George Washington’s personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and a draft of the Bill of Rights sold Friday at Christie’s for a whopping $9.8 million. Ann Bookout, regent of the board of the Mount Vernon ...

Our Constitution is both the shortest (with the possible exception of Monaco’s) and the oldest (with the possible exception of San Marino’s) written constitution of any government in the world. Myths ...