They, in a word, hold the purse—that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the ...

Narrator: It’s the constitution that’s really in charge. An animated overview of the foundation of British law and the constitution. Through authentic archival illustrations and modern ...

Thomas Jefferson praised the “free and ancient principles” of the British constitution in which “kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.” Britons, whether in Great ...

the delegates to the Constitutional Convention deliberately distinguished impeachment in this country from the British system by limiting the punishments in the federal Constitution to those ...

In order for the Constitution to take effect ... Taxes had been a major reason for throwing off British rule. But Hamilton understood taxes were a necessary evil. And he developed a plan that ...