America’s Founders lived well before the advent of social media, but that doesn’t mean they were unfamiliar with some of the more negative tendencies of our digital public square — particularly the ...

James Madison traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 with Athens on his mind. He had spent the year before the Constitutional Convention reading two trunkfuls of books on the history of failed democracies, ...

In our daily lives, how often are we told that our nation is divided? Americans are instructed by media outlets, politicians, and opinion leaders, often quite loudly and as a mantra, that we are ...

In what was perhaps his most prominent contribution to the anthological Federalist Papers published in 1787 advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, former President James Madison ...

The Federalist Papers, the most famous collection of newspaper columns ever published, helped persuade Americans to ratify the then-controversial U.S. Constitution, which had been finalized by ...

Iowa judges have imposed gay marriage on a state that voted against it. Faction is the eternal condition of mankind. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise ...

George Washington in his farewell solemnly warned “against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. This spirit,” he noted, “is inseparable from our nature ...

Donald Trump is the man and his supporters the angry faction the framers warned us about in The Federalist Papers. When Trump was elected, I was appalled. Once in office, I watched with apprehension ...

In opposing Proposition 4, Utah state Sen. Todd Weiler asserts that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t mention “political parties,” so they were not seen as a priority by the Founding Fathers (“Are all ...

Consider The Federalist Papers. They were instrumental in shaping public understanding of the Constitution before it was ratified in 1788, and they are still regularly cited today by courts and ...