Q. You’ve written about the Federalists and the Federalist Papers. But, who were the Anti-Federalists and what did they want? A. The central debate surrounding the drafting and ratification of the ...

A piece by Ofir Haivry and Yoram Hazony on the TAC website in June certainly seemed designed to provoke thought on the topic of American nationalism and its origins (“American Nationalism,” June 18).

When we talk about “the Founders” of the United States, we often think of the 55 men of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, 1787. We might even think of the great defenders of the ...

The paper analyzes Anti-Federalist and Federalist views of the office of the presidency during the ratification debate over the Constitution in 1787-1788. It explores in detailed fashion the critiques ...

Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...

In the war of words over whether or not to ratify the US Constitution, the two opposing sides — the Federalists, who supported ratification, and the Anti-Federalists, who did not — always used pen ...

One of the pleasures of writing is you often surprise yourself. Poets and fiction writers try to get out of the way to allow the work to go where it wants to go; nonfiction writers, like journalists, ...