Paul G. Summers is an attorney. He formerly served as an appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. Envisioning the principles of ...

The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution is straightforward. It was the seventh amendment of the Bill of Rights. Those rights were ratified by the states in about two years of the original ...

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is taking heat for remarks arguing there is no way to identify the Founding Fathers' thoughts on key issues when interpreting the Constitution, asking, "Who the heck would ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in ...

The best way to understand where we are today, and where we might be headed tomorrow, is to look at where we came from yesterday. That is particularly helpful for all parties in the ever-growing ...

The United States of America celebrated on the fourth of last July its two hundred and forty-ninth anniversary of independence. This occasion marks the country’s separation ...

Pulling back the legend curtain shows flawed, divided founders and makes the American story harder, richer, and more real for all. The post 11 Myths About America’s Founding Fathers Debunked appeared ...

It appears that we may finally to be coming out of the campaign on the left to "pack the court" with a liberal majority. That is good news. The problem is that many on the left have turned their ire ...

Extremists on the Supreme Court have lifted nearly all restrictions on guns in ruling that everyone, presumably even the mentally ill, can now openly walk around armed to the teeth. Justices wishing ...

In the wake of former U.S. President Donald Trump's landmark felony convictions in a hush-money case involving a porn star, many of his supporters took to social media to support him. Conservative ...

The United States of America has one of the oldest functioning constitutional republics in the world. We cannot take that for granted. We must all be informed citizens. To preserve the rights and ...