Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active—and it’s been at ...

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 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 ...

From the column: "Trump’s and the Republican Party’s apparent desire to control the citizenry parallels that of the ...

Federalists, no less than Republicans, were ideologues, cleaving to principal at times, surrendering to expediency at others. It is hard to see how Marshall, by taking the seat, both stood for ...

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 ...

It began to attack American ships that were trading with Britain. Adams, like Washington before him, knew the new nation could not withstand another war. But Adams was a Federalist, and in 1797 ...

Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives are every two years because the Framers of the Constitution wanted them to be close to the people.

At the ratifying conventions, the Anti-Federalists were extremely exercised over the clause. George Mason, for example, inveighed against the small number of Representatives during the debates at ...