The Ratification of The Bill of Rights. On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Con ...

These proposals sought to change the United States' name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on ...

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the U.S. Constitution? For many people, the answer probably involves one of the famous individual liberties that are spelled out in the ...

While bipartisan agreement may be rare, it's not surprising that it came in defense of the First Amendment—and a popular TV ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

On this day in 1789, the Bill of Rights was sent to the states for ratification. With the right to free speech still hotly contested 300 years later, Eliot Wilson goes back to the start There is ...

Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit against displaying the Ten Commandments, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution — commonly known as the Bill of Rights — should be posted in all ...