Not so with the President’s obligation to provide Congress with a report on the state of the Union. In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), Justice Joseph Story ...

The Constitution, Irving Kristol once observed, is a “highly paradoxical document.” On paper, it is minute, technical, rather boring. The preamble does include some stirring rhetoric ...

The compromise helped to build support for the Constitution and its rhetoric of “a more perfect union” — by codifying ... once was a slave everywhere and forever. The Three-Fifths Compromise ...

As a result, during the war, the Union army became a force of ... realized that the only way to ensure slavery died forever was changing the Constitution. Initially resistant (a hesitation Oakes ...

What is the relationship between the Declaration and the Constitution? Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the ...

It’s right there in the Constitution: the President of the United States “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their ...