The Federalist – known today as the Federalist Papers – is at once the best known single work in American political thought and rarely read in its 85-essay entirety. The American Bar Association and ...

Today, we celebrate the 238th anniversary of the publication of the very first essay in The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 1 from Oct. 27, 1787, marks the start of a seminal ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Boston College professor Mary Sarah Bilder gives a brief overview backgrounding the Federalist Papers An introductory overview of The Federalist ...

The first of The Federalist Papers were published 225 years ago this weekend. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham about their ...

Clinton, NY — In the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote a series of essays defending the U.S. Constitution called the Federalist Papers. Now, more than 230 years later, ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. Their goal was to urge voters to ratify the newly-drafted United States ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Why were the Federalist Papers important?

This paper explores The Federalist Papers with a view to throwing clearer light on the way of life, and the kind of human being, the Founders saw the Constitution as fostering. The thought of Madison ...

Federalist No. 72 is an oft-neglected defense of the president's reeligibility for election. However, the paper goes well beyond this issue to basic models of human nature and motivation. James L.