Mercyhurst University professor and political science department chair Joseph Morris views a particular course as the most important he teaches. His Introduction to American Government class is an ...

Recently there have been many pundits and incompetents who have been invoking Article VI, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause. No, progressive socialist leftists ...

A recent survey of 13,400 eighth grade students found fewer than 25 percent scored at or above the National Association of Educational Progress’s Proficient level in of civics. This means three out of ...

Help us defend constitutional government and ordered liberty. ‘Arepublic, if you can keep it.” That was Benjamin Franklin’s famous response when he was leaving the Constitutional Convention, after he ...

It has recently come to my attention that there is some confusion over the type of government we have in the United States. I am not talking about our Commission Form of government in Saratoga Springs ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

With every cry for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution comes speculation that cracks are undermining the foundation of our democratic republic. Would a rewrite or changes to the U.S. Constitution add ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful protestors ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (Emphasis is mine.) We ...

Most everyone in the state-run media mob, and every Democrat now acting shocked over Joe Biden’s cognitive state, is simply full of it. They are liars, through and through. Many claim to be arbiters ...

On Tuesday, Hutchinson City Councilwoman Sara Bagwell asked her fellow council members to adopt a resolution declaring Hutchinson a “Constitutional Republic.” The request failed, but the council did ...