Women of Washington

Communicating America’s Founding Principles

Women of Washington is an educational organization with a focus on understanding local, national, and global issues that are critical to our world today.

Constitution Corner

Weekly Articles About America's Founding 
Judy Leithe, Contributing Editor

The principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are foundational to Women of Washington. In these articles we explore the lives of our Founding Fathers, as well as everyday people, all of whom took on extraordinary personal risks and challenges when they left their native countries and made new lives for themselves, and their posterity, in a new land. Then, due to the crushing demands of King George III, they defended their newfound freedoms against the most powerful military force in the world -- that of the British Monarchy. We are the beneficiaries of these founders' foresight and courage.