Can Founding Fathers show us the right way? When our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia in the summers of 1774 and 1775, they came with serious differences on several subjects (slavery, states' ...

Walking along Commercial Street, I admired a picture of George Washington in a store window. If the “Father of Our Country” came back from 1787, what would he say about the mess our government is in ...

The April 30 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “The Founding Fathers had a reason for setting up the Electoral College” reopens a worthy question regarding our presidential election process. We do need to ...

This is in response to the Nov. 9 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “The truth about the history and intent of the Second Amendment.” The letter writer quotes Alexander Hamilton from Federalist No. 29 to ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, which focused on the relationship between Jefferson and John ...

July 4, 1776. What were they thinking? The United States just celebrated the 249th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. That is the written document that started this great experiment in ...

With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was ...

There are a number of reasons for these noted declines of our cherished empire – and others. More people than ever are being devoid of or apathetic to faith, leading to an eroding of the values that ...

The speed and seriousness with which Donald Trump is shaking up Washington has everyone’s head spinning. If the president called me and asked my advice about how he should explain to the American ...