Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Boston College professor Mary Sarah Bilder gives a brief overview backgrounding the Federalist Papers An introductory overview of The Federalist ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Why were the Federalist Papers important?

Clinton, NY — In the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote a series of essays defending the U.S. Constitution called the Federalist Papers. Now, more than 230 years later, ...

Courts, lawyers, and scholars have long assumed that The Federalist Papers supply important information for use in constitutional argument and interpretation. In recent years, commentators have ...