KTBB Constitution Minute

Episode 137 - Adequate to the Exigencies

Episode 87 - The Dred Scott Decision

Episode 136 - The Popular Vote

Episode 55: Jun 8, 1789

Episode 89 - Gideon v. Wainwright

Episode 46: The First President

In the early drafts of the enumerated powers set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the framers vested Congress with the power to "make war."

Episode 96 - 19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage

Episode 94 - Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

Episode 90 - 17th Amendment

Episode 54: Madison Introduces Amendments

Episode 92 - D.C. v. Heller

A bit more than two weeks before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia came to an end, the delegates voted unanimously to add a phrase to Article I.

Episode 42: If Men Were Angels

Episode 51 - Madison Evolves

Episode 99 - Wickard v. Filburn

Episode 134 - The National Guard

Episode 88 - 14th Amendment

Episode 133 - Duties and Imposts

Episode 132 - Establishing the Courts

Episode 131 - The State of the Union

Episode 3: The Role of the Executive

George Mason of Virginia wholeheartedly believed in the necessity and the mission of the Constitutional Convention of 1787

The subject of the presidency was the last issue to be resolved at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

What power to give a chief executive and what to call him was one of the most difficult topics to confront the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

The American founders, having suffered the tyranny of an overbearing British Crown, were not fans of strong, centralized government.

The American founders, having suffered the tyranny of an overbearing British Crown, were not fans of strong, centralized government.

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 recognized that for it to last, a mechanism for amending the Constitution would be needed.

At age 34, James Wilson, a native of Scotland, did more than any other single delegate at the Constitutional Convention to create the presidency.

Unlike many of the Founding Fathers, Roger Sherman had little formal education.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

Though James Madison is widely regarded as the architect of the U.S. Constitution.

James Madison was the first-born of a wealthy Virginia family.

There are two places in American society where all citizens are considered equal.

Congress passes laws and then places the enforcement of those laws into the hands of the executive branch.

Tyson Timbs of Indiana was convicted of selling $225 worth of illegal drugs and was sentenced to a year ...

How much power the states should cede to a national government was at the core of the debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The Constitution is rooted in English Common Law the Founders were accordingly mindful of the historic excesses of the English monarch.

The making laws is the responsibility of the legislative branch.

The making laws is the responsibility of the legislative branch.

In 1783, fear of monarchial rule was still very much alive in the hearts and minds of the American people and the Founding Fathers.

The subject of the presidency was one of the last things to be settled at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

The seventh is regarded as the most straightforward of all 27 amendments.

Politicians of our present day often speak of the need to "protect our democracy." But is that the correct term?

As his second term as president was drawing to a close, George Washington was weary and in declining health

As his second term as president was drawing to a close, George Washington was weary and in declining health

The passage of the Judiciary Act was the first major step toward establishing the role of the Judicial Branch of the United States government.

A bit more than two weeks before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia came to an end, the delegates voted unanimously to add a phrase to Article I.

It was the belief of James Madison, together with Alexander Hamilton, that a new constitution should provide for a mixture of state-based and population-based government.

James Madison's original vision for the chief of the executive branch was that a president would be elected by the Congress.