The conservative legal group’s annual dinner featured a conversation between Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Neil M. Gorsuch, ...

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.

Encouraged and abetted by free riders who would benefit unfairly from others’ work, well-intentioned lawmakers and judicial ...

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

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

I still believe Jefferson and Washington, though flawed, were highly evolved for their time. I also believe that if every ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that’s made ...

Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party, the ancestor of today’s Democratic Party, thought Adams and his Federalist Party ... of 1798 — the former written by Jefferson, the latter by James ...

“The fundamental maxim of Republican government,” declared Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 22 ... on the insights of the 18th century, writers cast our political situation ...

On Oct. 27, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest recorded Atlantic storms, began a four-day siege of Central America, ...

As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

The 23 acre Jay Estate. Name one of the writers of the Federalist Papers. Historical landmark in New Orleans. The territory of Louisiana consisted of the land West of the Mississippi River for $18 ...