Q. You’ve written about the Federalists and the Federalist Papers. But, who were the Anti-Federalists and what did they want? A. The central debate surrounding the drafting and ratification of the ...

Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the pleasures of writing is you often surprise yourself. Poets and fiction writers try to get out of the way to allow the work to go where it wants to go; nonfiction writers, like journalists, ...

We are now approaching the 250th anniversary of our national independence, the near miraculous fruit of what George Washington referred to as the Glorious Cause of the Revolution. That anniversary ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

The Constitution received overwhelming support at the Constitutional Convention, but it was not unanimous. The most prominent opponent was George Mason of Virginia. A widely respected Revolutionary ...

On Nov. 5, Democrats swept state elections across the east coast. In New Hampshire, however, incumbent Republicans were re-elected to municipal offices across the state, amidst rising polarization of ...