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 ...

The conservative legal group’s annual dinner featured a conversation between Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Neil M. Gorsuch, ...

Elaine Godfrey: The real election risk comes later At the end of the 18th century, the Federalists were the party of extreme entitlement. They favored a strong central government with the power to ...

Traditional federalist initiatives like the “Conference on the Future of Europe” were largely ineffectual. Ever since the federalist party structure collapsed, proponents of federalism had ...

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 ...

We all remember how bad things were in ‘24 [1824]. They stole the election with their Corrupt Bargain, and this time the Federalists aren’t going to let them get away with it. My great-great ...

Addressing the Federalist Society’s annual dinner on Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch sought to use a recent example to prove ...

Anti-Federalists felt a national government would not protect people far away from the Capitol. Hence, they proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which were ratified as the Bill of Rights.

National governments were able to take decisions, but their decisions were contradictory and unaccountable ... he proposes an alternative paradigm of a multi-tier Europe with a federalist core to ...