Two-hundred-and-thirty-five years ago on February 6, 1788, James Madison (writing as “Publius”) published perhaps the most famous of the Federalist papers: 51. These papers are essays defending the ...

The Federalist – known today as the Federalist Papers – is at once the best known single work in American political thought and rarely read in its 85-essay entirety. The American Bar Association and ...

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The first of The Federalist Papers were published 225 years ago this weekend. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham about their ...

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 ...