Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the Constitutional Convention a plan for a strong centralized government that could battle for America's ...

“Writing the Constitution” by Austin Peay State University history professor, Dr. Kevin Tanner, will tell the story of how ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

It would also be an exhaustive — and exhausting — undertaking to find a new system that would appease enough lawmakers, as ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual, even unique. Here’s how.

Oct. 22, 2024 The answer lies in the historical record of the debates at the Constitutional Convention during ... more informed and educated minds. James Madison stepped forward to coin the ...

It seems that every four years, we are told that, “This election is the most important election ever.” We have been ...

Maybe it would be a good thing if the former president won the popular vote for once—as long as he doesn’t win the election.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we ...

Forging unity is the ongoing work of American life. After an election, after an arduous legislative process, after more than ...

The United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional ...

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require protection for interests that would be overwhelmed by large ...