Constitution | Bill Petro

History of James Madison

July 5, 2021

HISTORY OF JAMES MADISON In this, the last of our articles on the Founding Fathers, we look at James Madison. He has correctly been called “the Father of the Constitution,” and one might think that the Constitution became active on July 5, 1776, but this is not how it happened. The American Constitution didn’t go…

History of the 19th Amendment: Women’s Right to Vote, 100 Years Ago

August 26, 2020

HISTORY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT: WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted. This prohibited both the Federal government and State governments from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States based on sex. Effectively, this meant that the…