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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I mean, it just seems like every time you hear about it — JOY PULLMAN (THE FEDERALIST EXECUTIVE EDITOR): We have — for those interested at The Federalist, we have a t----- tracker — well ...