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 ...

"Standing armies are dangerous to liberty," wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 29 ... danger have been always the ...

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 ...

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

The public interest, for Madison, Jefferson ... over-ruling the popular vote in the states. Alexander Hamilton endorsed this “filtration” approach in Federalist 68. Filtering the presidential ...

The president-elect wants the Senate to abdicate its role in reviewing presidential appointments. It shouldn’t give in.

The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure of the United States just a few years after the revolution that had created the young nation. The sitting vice president, Thomas ...

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 ...

“Writing the Constitution” by Austin Peay State University history professor, Dr. Kevin Tanner, will tell the story of how ...

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.