The spirit of the opposition was still alive and well, and the Anti-Federalist party wasn't about to give up just because the Federalists published a series of essays. Unlike the Federalist Papers,...

It's pretty fascinating to read Hamilton's take on the same questions about faction conflict against Madison's Federalist 10…and only in part because Hamilton is just so crazy-fascinating.The two...

In an impassioned speech to the Virginia state legislature—"passionate" is pretty much Patrick Henry's default speech setting—Henry defended the Articles of Confederation against the ratificati...

While we're talking about speeches to state legislatures, we can't leave out James Wilson's speech to the Rhode Island legislature, to try to get them to come around to the Federalist way of thinki...

Another anonymous essay series appeared in the New York press during November 1787 (can you tell this whole anonymous letter thing was popular back in the day?). This time, we got the Anti-Federali...