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?

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers was published. The series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison called for the ratification of the ...

Did you know that when the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, lots of Americans thought it was a bad idea? That's why ...

On October 27th – In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, was published under the pseudonym "Publius" (the essays ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video highlights the purpose of "The Federalist" as the colonies were discussing the ratification of "The U.S. Constitution." In September 1787, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Grove City College president Paul McNulty explained the purpose of the Federalist Papers and how they were written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton ...

Of all the Federalist Papers written to convince Americans that the recently created Constitution deserved ratification, the most famous was Federalist 10, published last week (Nov. 22) in 1787, in ...

The Indiana Supreme Court Law Library has an excerpt of Federalist Paper No. 65, believed to have been written by Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Connor Burress, TheStatehouseFile.com. The basement of ...

During Chief Justice Roberts's confirmation hearing, he refused to call himself an originalist. And during his nearly two decades on the Court, he has never raised the banner of originalism. But he ...

Madison, Hamilton, and, to a lesser extent, John Jay provide a comprehensive defense of the new U.S. Constitution as they fight for its ratification in what will become a contentious and, in the end, ...