
Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation
A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did

We’ve revived our online exhibit on the Constitutional Convention. It’s the brainchild of Gordon Lloyd, Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, Visiting Professor in the Master of Arts in American

When former students contact eighth grade American history teacher Melanie Stuthard, they always ask, “Do you still hold a Constitutional Convention in your class? Please tell me you do!” They all

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is pleased to announce the relaunch of our Constitutional Convention exhibit! Originally created by our Senior Fellow Gordon Lloyd, this exhibit contains a wide range of primary and secondary sources from the American

Americans seeking to understand how the founders developed our Constitutional framework of government have faced a problem deliberately created by the founders, who agreed on a rule of strict secrecy