During the ratification debates, the Constitution’s advocates focused ... creating a union of eleven states. In September 1788, the Congress passed a resolution authorizing the appointment ...

Dr. Kaye Whitehead examines the end of America's representative democracy and suggests a new path forward. Learn about ...

The Constitution created three separate, co-equal branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial — and no one branch was supposed to dominate the others.

What were the political parties in 1788? Between 1788 and 1789 there were no political parties, but an important divide emerged between federalists who wanted the Constitution ratified and ...