(“We are in the wilderness without a single footstep to guide us,” James Madison had written to Jefferson a few ... Democratic-Republican journalists were jailed under the Federalist-passed Sedition ...

The framers of our Constitution expected these divisions. They called them “factions.” James Madison discussed this problem ...

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The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

The Federalist Papers are the 85 articles and essays James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the full replacement of the ...

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[4] Background of the Federalist Papers The Federalist Papers are the 85 articles and essays James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published arguing for the ratification of the U.S.

The Federalist-controlled Congress also gave ... of 1798 — the former written by Jefferson, the latter by James Madison, both making their case anonymously — argued states could obstruct ...

Breslin is the Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Chair of Political Science at Skidmore College and author of "A Constitution for ...