Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous circumstances of an untested federal government. The newly established ...

If you are counting on a potential electoral contest between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, you might have to tamp down your ...

Even George Washington issued them ... Article One of the Constitution sets Congress as the legislative body, and tasks lawmakers with the power and authority — not the president — to create ...

Despite social media attention, the Constitution protects freedom of religion. So putting a hand on a Bible, or even using ...

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama would not be able to serve a third term because they served ...

The Constitution is remarkably nonspecific ... might change overnight as battle lines shifted. George Washington sought oaths of loyalty to address this problem. He wrote to John Hancock ...

Those four little words are not in the Constitution, but for many Americans, the phrase has been a part of the oath ever since George Washington was said to have added it 236 years ago.

With the latest presidential inauguration set to take place in Washington on Monday, Eyewitness News takes a look at where the first one took place: the heart of New York City, more than two centuries ...