George Washington sought oaths ... protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It sat that way until the closing days of the Convention. Washington’s copy, marked up as it ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

An assembly of 137 delegates representing every state quietly convened in a simulation that, when convened officially, could effectively strip Washington ... convention of states. The U.S ...

The creation of the United States ... the Convention, once decided, Washington pushed the delegates to adopt "no temporizing expedient" but instead to "probe the defects of the Constitution ...

The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, when George Washington had yet to be elected as the United States’ first president. Still ...

Thus the signers subscribed their names “In witness” to what was “Done in Convention,” and, with the exception of George Washington ... Independence of the United States of America ...

Challenges Because he was America’s first president, George Washington essentially created the presidency. For example, although the Constitution explained ... large portions of their land to the ...

A constitutional convention would present an opportunity to enshrine in the Constitution the tenets, morals, and ethics of a ...

That famous description of George Washington ... seeking the candidacy, Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the Constitution. He serves two terms ...

The recent flurry of presidential pardons from both former President Biden and President Trump has put a renewed focus on ...