America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

Gerrymandering’ was coined in 1812, and the practice has grown to such an extent that political representation is severely ...

During his first term in office, Trump not only went after undocumented immigrants, but also significantly cracked down on legal immigration. Last March, he said he would order mass deportations on ...

Take gerrymandering, for example, named after the governor of Massachusetts in 1812, Elbridge Gerry. Unlike in Australia, where an independent body draws electoral district boundaries, in many US ...

The most enduring images in American political life are those drawn from the natural world—rivers and springs reflect the ever-changing course of politics, monsters suggest the carefully apportioned ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Governor Caleb Strong of Massachusetts requested an opinion of ... of Justices, 8 Mass. 548 (1812). The issue was finally resolved by the Supreme Court in 1827 in Martin v. Mott.

The word was invented in 1812 when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, redrew the electoral map for the state Senate to benefit his party. The result was an oddly shaped district that ...

"Huzzah, her sides are made of iron!" — American sailor in War of 1812 The ship was ordered on March 1, 1794, in anticipation of the passage of the Naval Act of 1794, which President George ...

The term came from a salamander-like district signed into law by Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry in 1812. There are lots of ...

In Massachusetts Bay Colony the first execution ... to four; New Hampshire in 1812, to two and Ohio in 1815, to two. Each of these states built state penitentiaries. A few states went the opposite ...

The term came from a salamander-like district signed into law by Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry in 1812. There are lots of ways to gerrymander. One method is called packing. Using this ...