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Legal experts testified on the Elections Clause and Congress' role in regulating federal elections before the House Administration Committee. Witnesses answered questions about the Founders'…

Presidential historians, authors and campaign advisers discussed the past, present, and future of presidential elections at a virtual event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law Journ…

Professor Jack Rakove talked about some of the issues debated during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, such as the number of representatives for each state and the method of presidentia…

Article I of the U.S. Constitution enumerates the design, powers and limits of the legislative branch of the federal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jack Rakove and Margaret Mar…

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) hosted a forum with other Democratic members ib the possibility of replacing the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. …

Jack Rakove talked about different approaches to interpreting the U.S. Constitution. He is the author of several books, including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the C…

Historians and authors talked about the state of the new nation after the U.S. constitution’s ratification and the debate over adding a Bill of Rights. They also spoke about how Congress cam…

Historians and legal scholars talked about the original intent and scope of the 13th and 14th Amendments. These were ratified during the Reconstruction era and dealt with rights for freed sl…

Jack Rakove talked about James Madison’s role in the creation of the Constitution. He also spoke about James Madison’s arguments in the Federalist papers he co-published with Alexander Hamil…

Two authors talked about their books about the founding of America in conversation with Gary Johnson. T.H. Breen is the author of American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of th…

Jack Rakove talked about his book Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), which explores how the nation came to be and why the idea of A…

Mr. DeGioia and Mr. Traynor gave opening remarks at a conference titled “Fair and Independent Courts: A Conference on the State of the Judiciary.” Former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sand…