As a historical corollary, the Industrial Revolution helped lay the foundation for the modern stock market, merchant banking, ...

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 ...

Between October 1787 and May 1788, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay undertook what was essentially a public relations campaign to encourage New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and ...

The 57th of 85 articles favoring ratification of the U.S. Constitution appeared on this day in 1787 in New York City newspapers. The articles came to be known as the Federalist Papers. Virginia’s ...

”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 ...

The Indiana Supreme Court Law Library has an excerpt of Federalist Paper No. 65, believed to have been written by Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Connor Burress, TheStatehouseFile.com. The basement of ...

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 ...

"Constitutional originalism is all the rage...." So begins Jeffrey Rosen's Week in Review article (New York Times, January 9. 2011) about political thought in the Tea Party era. The motive behind such ...