The 12th Amendment was a response to the crazy presidential election of 1800.

What caused Americans to rebel against their own country, Great Britain?

The Austin yogurt shop murders demonstrates that constitutional rights are more than annoying technicalities.

Why are successful independent candidacies so rare?

The Fathers of the Constitution spent a lot of time thinking of the Roman Empire...and it wasn't for the meme.

Less than 20 percent of today's Americans are old enough to remember the Watergate scandal and constitutional crisis of 1972-74.

The framers of our constitution did not intend that the president "run the country."

The Texas state constitution contains its own Bill of Rights that protect rights above and beyond those already protected by the federal Bill of Rights.

In the 1840s and 1850s, escaped Texas slaves blazed a less well publicized path to freedom.

The Underground Railroad was a system of back roads and safe houses leading to the free states of the North and to Canada.