The 57th of 85 articles favoring ratification of the U.S. Constitution appeared on this day in 1787 in New York City newspapers. The articles came to be known as the Federalist Papers. Virginia’s ...

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 ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. Their goal was to urge voters to ratify the newly-drafted United States ...

This paper explores The Federalist Papers with a view to throwing clearer light on the way of life, and the kind of human being, the Founders saw the Constitution as fostering. The thought of Madison ...