The Constitution empowered Congress to raise taxes directly on the American people for this purpose rather than rely on the rather unreliable state governments. Edmund Randolph and John Rutledge ...

Presiding was the man shown above: the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay. The First Chief Justice: John Jay The Constitution ... Convention, Rutledge was on the court for ...

The national debt, currently at $36.3 trillion and growing, is a boulder weighing on economic prosperity. The money lent to the government with every purchase of a note, bill, or bond, as investors ...

The person who emerges from this year's session needs to be a traditional Republican, focused on the efficient spending of tax dollars and a fair tax code. Trump will be gone from office before the ...

As we rolled down rural highways in the late 1960s, billboards would appear with this message: "Get us out of the United ... When Welch founded the John Birch Society 13 years later to 'safeguard the ...

On one side of that argument, critics of Trump's order maintain that birthright citizenship is a bedrock principle of the U.S. and enshrined in the Constitution ... will likely see many more ...

The chart below looks at the number of governorships held by the Democratic and Republican parties between 1977 and 2024. The biggest difference between the number of seats held by Democrats compared ...

Dr. John Rutledge was one of the principal architects of the Reagan economic plan in 1980-81 and has been an adviser to the Bush White House on tax policy. Dr. Rutledge is the Chairman of Rutledge ...