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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

”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 ...

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 ...