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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the Anti-Federalists by asking: What did they get right? The Bill of Rights is a great achievement, a kind of ...
In this episode of “The Opinions,” David French breaks down why parts of the original Constitution lend themselves to abuse — and which three amendments could stop another shutdown like this one. “But ...
Federalists carried the day at the Pennsylvania ratifying convention in October 1787, but Antifederal arguments were spreading rapidly. Newspapers all across the country were publishing works by ...
In this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the Anti-Federalists, the politicians and polemicists who opposed the Constitution during the ratification debate of 1787-1788. The ...
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Socialists are now at the helm in New York and Seattle, and come November, Washington, D.C. But it’s not just cities that the Democratic Socialists of America have their eyes on: The true prize is ...
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 ...
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, ...
Resistance is not futile, although it might seem that way at the moment. No major protests are set to descend on the National Mall. Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s policies are likely doomed, given ...
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