When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

Little did he know that all of the warnings of the Anti-Federalists about consolidated power and tyranny were right. It was always Mr. Hamilton’s attempt to minimise and laugh off claims of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

The Federalists feared and hated Jefferson, but partly due to infighting, they were never able to organize successful opposition. A last great hope -- that the New England states would secede and ...

President Trump is considering invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a law that is 200+ years old, to further his mass deportation ...

These essays were first published as a series in New York newspapers, under the title The Federalist. Hamilton did not attend the entire four-month Constitutional Convention that began in May ...

There were pro-slavery Federalists and Whigs and even slave-owning or anti-abolition Republicans, but at worst, the Federalists were indifferent to slavery and the Whigs incoherent on it.

These noble goals were always going to take a hit in a Trump administration, but the Federalist Society’s ability to drill their malodorous policies more firmly into the foundations of our ...

In the fractious debates of 1787-88, as the ink dried on a proposed Constitution, a cadre of skeptics—now dubbed Anti-Federalists—peered through the haze of revolutionary optimism to glimpse a ...