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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Between October 1787 and May 1788, Alexander Hamilton, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Between October 1787 and May 1788, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay undertook what was essentially a public ...

The Federalist Papers were basically “letters to the editor” submissions to the 18th century colonial newspapers with the objective of selling the newly drafted Constitution, later ratified in 1788.

"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 ...

The first installment of the Federalist Papers was published by Alexander Hamilton 229 years ago today — October 27, 1787. Writing under the pseudonym Publius, which he would share with John Jay and ...

Peter recently said to his Big Think readers “It really is true that you don’t know much about how the Constitution works even today if you haven’t read them.” By “them” he meant The Federalist Papers ...

Peter Berkowitz has a column in the WSJ entitled: Why Colleges Don’t Teach the Federalist Papers. This headline caught my eye for a couple of reasons. The first being the obvious fact that as a ...

On this day in 1787, the 57th of 85 articles favoring ratification of the Constitution appeared in New York newspapers. The articles came to be known as the Federalist Papers. James Madison, the ...