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 ...

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?

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, ...

Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for ...

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Between October 1787 and May 1788, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay undertook what was essentially a public ...

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 ...

It seems a lot of people have a misconception of the meaning of the Second Amendment; The Bill of Rights gives no one anything. What it does do is stop the government from infringing on your right ...

Madison, Hamilton, and, to a lesser extent, John Jay provide a comprehensive defense of the new U.S. Constitution as they fight for its ratification in what will become a contentious and, in the end, ...

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 ...

”Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty out to have it before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be ...

After the British surrender at Yorktown brought a victorious end to the Revolutionary War in October 1781, The Courant’s circulation slipped to 3,000. Looking for alternative sources of revenue, ...

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