The most important of these is the Electoral College, which is supposed to, as Hamilton put it in Federalist 68, preserve the ...

Shouldn't the popular vote win the presidency? In the Talmud, majority rule transcends even God, and definitely the Electoral ...

The American founders are justifiably famous for their political wisdom. So why did they build the strange contraption called ...

They called them “factions.” James Madison discussed this problem in the 10th of the Federalist Papers, the newspaper ...

Hamilton, with his friend James Madison of Virginia, becomes a key leader of the movement to strengthen the general government of the United States. May: A third child, Alexander, is born to ...

In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the Electoral College ...

James Madison called public debt “a public curse.” We're currently cursed to the tune of $35.9 trillion and counting. Who's ...

Trump’s great accomplishment is to spread the dangerous lie that our problems can be blamed on the weakest and most vulnerable in our midst.

The song also echoes earlier Hamilton songs as Angelica and Alexander ... Jefferson, and Madison â and deals with the ...

My son texted me yesterday to tell me that he had voted and that it made him sick to his stomach. I suspect he was mostly ...

James Madison also lamented ... In the modern world, “deliverance” became “indifference." Voters ignored Alexander Hamilton’s ...

Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11 ... Along with John Jay and James Madison, Hamilton wrote "The Federalist," a series of essays that defended the yet-to-be-approved Constitution.