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"The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 84

Arbor Day and the First Safety Pin In 1607, the British colonial expedition that would found Jamestown departed Puerto Rico for the American mainland. In 1778, South Carolina issued its own money. It was printed on thin paper from engraved copper plates. In 1834, a fire at the LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans , Louisiana , led to the discovery of a torture chamber where Delphine LaLaurie routinely brutalized enslaved workers. In 1841, the New York Tribune began publishing unde

Seven things that came out of World War I that are used daily in today's world but were not previously used before the Great War: Wristwatches: Before the war, only women wore them because men used pocketwatches. Pilates: Joseph Pilates invented this when he was at an internment camp on the Isle of Man to help those confined to their beds. He eventually opened a studio in New York City in 1925. Trench Coats: Were developed for British officers to keep them warm and dry in

Ray Kroc In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle , claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming it Louisiana . In 1768, Customs officials tried to board one of John Hancock‘s ships, the Lydia, without a warrant. Hancock refused to let them search and had one officer physically thrown off the ship, starting a legal battle about search and seizure rights. In 1776, Washington reached New London, Connecticut, at about 1 p.m., as evidenced by an  expense account

"For my own part, the more the operation of the institution has fallen under my observation, the more reason I have discovered for holding it in high estimation; and it would be altogether superfluous to examine to what extent it deserves to be esteemed useful or essential in a representative republic, or how much more merit it may be entitled to, as a defense against the oppressions of an hereditary monarch, than as a barrier to the tyranny of popular magistrates in a popula

"I mean not therefore to contend that the United States, in the course of legislation upon the objects intrusted to their direction, may not commit the decision of causes arising upon a particular regulation to the federal courts solely, if such a measure should be deemed expedient; but I hold that the State courts will be divested of no part of their primitive jurisdiction, further than may relate to an appeal; and I am even of opinion that in every case in which they were n