Constituting America

Constituting America Promoting the Constitution through popular culture!

Our multi-tiered approach features a contest for kids, academic forums with Constitutional Scholars, Patriot Clubs, and our Constitutional Chats Podcast!

"The Northwest Ordinance and Founding Documents" 🇺🇸📜Check out our latest essay now!Author: Will Morrisey, Professor Emer...
05/29/2026

"The Northwest Ordinance and Founding Documents" 🇺🇸📜
Check out our latest essay now!

Author: Will Morrisey, Professor Emeritus of Politics at Hillsdale College
Constituting America's 15th Online Study:

Consent of the Governed: Celebrating America's 250th of the Declaration of Independence
"Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."
— The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Rome built an empire through conquest and collapsed under its own tyranny. America chose a different path. Morrisey traces how the Northwest Ordinance answered Montesquieu's great warning — creating an "empire of liberty" that expanded self-government westward rather than imposing colonial rule.

📌 Learn more and enjoy today's essay here: https://f.mtr.cool/olnrlbiaty

"Manasseh Cutler and the Northwest Ordinance" 🇺🇸📜Check out our latest essay now!Author: Daniel A. Cotter, Member, Aronbe...
05/28/2026

"Manasseh Cutler and the Northwest Ordinance" 🇺🇸📜
Check out our latest essay now!

Author: Daniel A. Cotter, Member, Aronberg Goldgehn

Constituting America's 15th Online Study:
Consent of the Governed: Celebrating America's 250th of the Declaration of Independence
"In this respect, the Northwest Ordinance stands alongside the Declaration and the Constitution as a foundational expression of American nation-building."

Manasseh Cutler didn't just help draft the Northwest Ordinance — he embedded into it the conviction that free citizens require education, moral grounding, and self-governance. His fingerprints are on the very clause that made knowledge and virtue the foundation of the American republic's westward expansion.

📌 Learn more and enjoy today's essay here: https://f.mtr.cool/aactjrrcse

05/28/2026

The Revolution did not just divide a country. It divided a father and a son.

Most Americans know Benjamin Franklin as a Founding Father. Fewer know his only surviving son chose the other side. William Franklin was the royal governor of New Jersey. When the Revolution came, he remained loyal to the British Crown. The Continental Congress had him arrested in 1776. He was imprisoned, then exiled to England. Benjamin Franklin largely excluded him from his will. They never fully reconciled.

Some of the highest prices paid for the Revolution were never paid on a battlefield.

The Pursuit is a vertical series written, directed, and starring Janine Turner for Constituting America, featuring the Founding Fathers and Mothers who shaped the nation. Their stories. Their decisions. Their courage.

Comment DIRECTOR and we’ll send you the Behind the Story interview with Janine.

New episodes release weekly through July 4 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

05/27/2026

Every family has that one argument that never gets resolved.

The American Revolution was not fought only on battlefields. It was fought at dinner tables. In drawing rooms. Between fathers and sons.

Janine Turner wanted to show how both sides — the revolutionaries and the loyalists — held differing perspectives on the future of the colonies. William Franklin was Benjamin Franklin’s son. He chose the Crown. His father chose the Revolution. Neither one backed down.

The Pursuit is a vertical series written. directed, and starring Janine Turner for Constituting America, featuring the Founding Fathers and Mothers who shaped the nation. Their stories. Their decisions. Their courage. New episodes release weekly through July 4 in honor of America's 250th anniversary.

Comment PURSUIT and we’ll send you Episode 08 Featuring Pastor Muhlenberg on YouTube directly.

New episodes release weekly through July 4 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

05/26/2026

He walked into church as a pastor. He walked out as a soldier. Three hundred men followed him.

In 1776, most men of the cloth stayed at the pulpit. Pastor Peter Muhlenberg did not. He believed liberty was not just a political cause. It was a divine one. On January 21, 1776, he reportedly stood before his congregation, finished his sermon, and removed his clerical robes to reveal a Continental Army uniform underneath. He told them there is a time for everything, a time to preach and a time to fight. Three hundred men walked out behind him. He went on to serve as a brigadier general under Washington at Valley Forge and Yorktown.

He did not just preach it. He proved it.

The Pursuit is a vertical series written, directed, and starring Janine Turner for Constituting America, featuring the Founding Fathers and Mothers who shaped the nation. Their stories. Their decisions. Their courage.

Comment DIRECTOR and we’ll send you the Behind the Story interview with Janine.

New episodes release weekly through July 4 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

"The Northwest Ordinance and Settlers in the West" 🇺🇸📜 Check out our latest essay now!Author: Scot Faulkner, Author, For...
05/26/2026

"The Northwest Ordinance and Settlers in the West" 🇺🇸📜 Check out our latest essay now!

Author: Scot Faulkner, Author, Former Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives
Constituting America's 15th Online Study: Consent of the Governed: Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

"The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 is considered by historians and constitutional scholars as one of America's most important founding documents, taking its place with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."

Never before had a national government strategically outlined how new lands would be governed and settler rights protected. The Northwest Ordinance transformed westward expansion from conquest into consent — planting the seeds of self-governance across the continent.

📌 Learn more and enjoy today's essay here: https://us.constitutingamerica.org/consentofthegoverned_7a

05/26/2026

He shocked the church! No one in the congregation knew what he was about to do.

He stood at the pulpit and finished his sermon. Then he reached up and removed his clerical robes. Underneath was a Continental Army uniform.

He told his congregation there is a time for everything, a time to preach and a time to fight.

Our founder, actress Janine Turner, wanted to capture something bigger than one man’s decision. The clergy of the Revolution believed liberty was not just a political idea, but a divine one. Pastor Muhlenberg did not just preach that belief.

He put on a uniform to prove it.

This Memorial Day, “The Pursuit” helps us remember the roots of liberty for which our fallen soldiers sacrificed!

The Pursuit is a vertical series written, directed, and starring Janine Turner for Constituting America, featuring the Founding Fathers and Mothers who shaped the nation. Their stories. Their decisions. Their courage.

Comment PURSUIT and we’ll send you the YouTube playlist directly to catch up on the whole series before the episode 08 drop tomorrow!

🇺🇸 Memorial Day 2026 🇺🇸From The United States Veterans Administration-"THE MUFFLED drum's sad roll has beat The soldier'...
05/25/2026

🇺🇸 Memorial Day 2026 🇺🇸

From The United States Veterans Administration-

"THE MUFFLED drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground 5 Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead."

Bivouac Of The Dead, by Theodore O'Hara

Memorial Day, which is observed on the last Monday of May, commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service. In observance of the holiday, many people visit cemeteries and memorials, and volunteers often place American flags on each grave site at national cemeteries. A national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time."

When the tradition began in 1868, the original order called on Americans to honor “comrades who died in defense of their country” and to cherish “the memory of our heroic dead.”

Some Gave All....Thank You

05/24/2026

In The Pursuit, Alexis Schrepple steps into the role of Abigail Adams in Constituting America's vertical series, written, directed, and starring Janine Turner.

Featuring the Founding Fathers and Mothers who shaped the nation. Their stories. Their decisions. Their courage.

New episodes release weekly through July 4 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

Miss Episode 07? Comment PURSUIT and we’ll send you the link to watch now!

05/22/2026

She sued to be relieved of abuse. 🇺🇸⚖️ But the case raised a bigger question…. Learn the story 👇

#1776

"The Ratification Debate Over the Constitution and Founding Documents" 🇺🇸📜 Check out our latest essay now!Author: Christ...
05/22/2026

"The Ratification Debate Over the Constitution and Founding Documents" 🇺🇸📜 Check out our latest essay now!

Author: Christopher C. Burkett, Associate Professor, Ashland University and Ashbrook Center

Constituting America's 15th Online Study:
Consent of the Governed: Celebrating America's 250th of the Declaration of Independence

"It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force." — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1 The Constitution wasn't handed down — it was debated, contested, and ultimately ratified by the sovereign will of the people themselves through elected state conventions. Burkett shows why that unprecedented democratic process became the bedrock of America's constitutional legitimacy.

📌 Learn more and enjoy today's essay here:
https://us.constitutingamerica.org/consentofthegoverned_6c

Address

Colleyville, TX

Telephone

+18889370917

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Constituting America posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Constituting America:

Shortcuts

Share

Category