The American president is chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Here's why that is and how it works.

But there is textual evidence from the Constitution's framers -- including Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton -- about ...

The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized power, adopting the philosophy of divide and conquer. At the national level, they created three different branches of government to ...

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

The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It is different from the popular vote, and it has ...

After former President Donald Trump won election to a second term in the White House, many were asking online “Can Trump run ...

The method of electing the president was an expression of a very conservative philosophy of government embodied by most of ...

Article I, Section 2: This provision offers evidence of how very different the world of the framers was from modern ... to this clause in the original constitution as proof that the Tea Party ...

Steven Schwartzberg shows how the 19th-century arguments for Native American expulsion went against the intentions of the ...

After Tuesday’s election results, all eyes are on President-elect Donald Trump, but Kansas’ senior Republican senator urged ...

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. The Constitution was intended to give the national ...