Madison spent considerable energy in addressing the Anti-Federalist concern that a strong nation would usurp powers of the states and result in tyranny. While elaborating on it in Federalist Paper ...

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 ...

In Federalist No. 39, Madison, writing under the trio's collective pen name, Publius, countered Anti-Federalist charges that the proposed government would be overly centralized and could subsume ...

They wanted a professional nationwide armed force. Other delegates—the Anti-Federalists—argued that Congress could abuse its power, disarm the state militias, and strip landowners of their rights.

Arizona State University Politics Professor Colleen Sheehan talks about Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay and why they wrote this collection of papers. Clip #4: Federalist #1 (2:41).

James Madison’s heart was clearly not in his argument in Federalist #62. Writing in late February 1788, when only six states had yet ratified the Constitution, he had to explain why the Federal ...

In his July 5 op-ed, Kendall Cotton attributed this line to James Madison: “The right to property is rooted in the right we have to the free use of our Eileen Sheehy: Madison misquote causes ...