founding fathers

Frank W. Keeney explains how inserting Article V into the constitution was an act of humility.

Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations.

If America’s founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no President, they would quickly have chosen the latter.

Thanks to a presidential proclamation dating back to Franklin Roosevelt, December 15 is the day we celebrate the Bill of Rights—the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The hidden history of a great historic document.

Phyllis Schlafly is perhaps best remembered for leading grassroot campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.

This month marks the 250th anniversary of John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania — the landmark series of newspaper op-eds that laid out the colonial case against taxation without representation.

Just how did a group of thinkers and activists in the 1700s come up with a cherished document that launched a revolution and developed into a dream?

Is the US on the wrong track?

American Greatness Managing Editor Ben Boychuk and Heartland’s Jim Lakely recorded a podcast for Independence Day. Ben inspired Jim with his tradition to read the Declaration of Independence at July 4th observances, which he brought to my barbecue years ago.

Mark Independence Day Weekend with a podcast discussing American Exceptionalism. The Founding Fathers gave us a government where liberty and freedom are paramount … if we can keep it.

The Left doesn’t like acquiescing to the will of We the People. They like – to degree that they can pull it off – to PRETEND to acquiesce to the will of We the People.

Public opinion polls show that 70% of the public believes the electoral college should be eliminated and replaced by a national popular vote. No change should be made without first understanding why the electoral college was created.