“Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace, peace,' but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are ...

MINOT, N.D. — The American form of government is founded upon a singular and simple concept: Political power derives its legitimacy from the people. It's right there in the Declaration of Independence ...

On the 4th of July, Americans celebrated the Declaration of Independence which ushered in a new concept of governance set out in the opening lines of that document: “We hold these truths to be ...

No wonder American politics is a mess. Consider the gap between the governed and those who govern. According to a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports: The founding document of the United States, the ...

In a nation founded on the principle that all power in governance resides in “we the people,” the “consent of the governed” should be the goal not only of those in the public policy arena, but in the ...

A new Rasmussen Reports poll revealed that most voters believe the federal government “no longer has the consent of the governed.” Nearly 6 out of 10 (59%) voters feel this way. Conversely, only 25% ...

Over the last year or so, there has been much criticism of leadership in the U.S. for the state of affairs in this country. Government at the local and national level has been criticized for failures ...

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” These words of Thomas Jefferson can be found in the second paragraph of the Declaration of ...

THE WASHINGTON POST opened its Wednesday coverage of Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on an amendment to the United States Constitution concerning marriage with the hardly neutral ...

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” These words of Thomas Jefferson can be found in the second paragraph of the Declaration of ...