(WDBJ) - On this day in 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers was published. The series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison called for the ratification of the ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Why were the Federalist Papers important?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly two and a half centuries ago, Alexander Hamilton authored the first of the Federalist Papers. As "CBS Evening News" ...

The Indiana Supreme Court Law Library has an excerpt of Federalist Paper No. 65, believed to have been written by Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Connor Burress, TheStatehouseFile.com. The basement of ...

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 ...

The New York Times opines today on what they see as the limits on the president’s power as Commander in Chief. And in particular, they describe Bush as the sort of ‘imperial President’ the Founders ...

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 ...