The government does have a legitimate role to play in maintaining order, keeping the people safe, and punishing violent offenders. In fact, we could not enjoy our rights and freedoms without this protection.
What truly threatens freedom is not Jefferson’s declaration that rights are endowed by our Creator. The danger lies in the opposite belief — that rights come from government.
A measure is moving in the General Assembly that would require at least three credit hours of instruction in American history or governance in order to graduate from a University of North Carolina institution or a community college.
Exactly 235 years ago, on November 21, 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in the Union.
One of South Carolina's early governors – and one of the nation's most controversial founding fathers – is taking center stage in a critical U.S. Supreme Court case this week that could fundamentally alter the control of federal congressional elections.
Those who consider North Carolina's "battleground" status to be a recent development should examine the historical record.
The 1787-89 debates over ratifying the Constitution offer another example of North Carolina's longstanding role as a battleground state in U.S. political history.
George Mason law professor F.H. Buckley decries the growth of presidential power in the American constitutional system.
RALEIGH — James Madison is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” But Madison’s ties to the U.S. Constitution go beyond the role he played at its birth. Jeff Broadwater, professor of history at Barton College, highlights Madison’s various constitutional roles in the book James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation. Broadwater discussed themes from that book during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
He’s known as the Father of the Constitution, despite the fact that he didn’t much like the product that emerged from the secretive convention that created that document. He served as the fourth American president under the Constitution. Few at the time would have disputed his job qualifications, even after such Revolutionary Era titans as Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had elevated the executive office’s status...
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