Opinion: The Constitution wasn’t made for partisan warriors

On Sept. 17 , our nation will celebrate the 236th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution .

John Adams would have emphasized “disinterestedness” as the virtue informing the morality of a successfully self-governing people.

Peter Bergen : The founders understood that the spirit of faction had doomed all prior republican experiments to failure.

Grant Madsen is an assistant professor in the History department at Brigham Young University . His research focuses on American political institutions both inside and outside the United States . His views are his own..