The little-known emoluments clause of the Constitution bars the president and other government employees from accepting foreign gifts and payments without congressional approval.Read the clause, as ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Timothy Huebner talks about the country's views on slavery from the 1820s through the 1850s. Timothy Huebner talked about the Civil War Era and the ...

Delegates to Alaska's 1955 constitutional convention, which produced the document under which Alaska achieved statehood. For three months during the winter of 1955 and 1956, 55 delegates from around ...

A majority of U.S. adults say they believe the U.S. Constitution is inspired by God, but apart from a colloquial expression of the date, there is no mention of a higher being throughout the document.