The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

He understood he was setting precedents that had to last — even as many disagreed on what precise form our government should take. It was Washington who emphasized that America was a republic ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... the first of everything in our situation will serve to establish a precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part that these precedents be fixed ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional ... though constitutionally dubious, set a precedent for executive action in times of national emergency.

The Supreme Court will rule that President Donald Trump has the power to fire independent federal agency heads.

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

When the county is in turmoil and awash in frustration, suspicion and anger it may help to think about basic principles — to think about those ideas that have inspired ...

During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business.

Trump is pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935 ruling that limits presidential ...

President's Day started in the 1880s when Americans first began celebrating the birth of President George ... traditions and precedents of the presidency were established by Washington.