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?

This is a moment that calls for great courage. Federal trial and appellate judges must leave behind the safe harbor of timidity and lengthy footnotes and instead act boldly when the executive ...

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, ...

Today, we celebrate the 238th anniversary of the publication of the very first essay in The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 1 from Oct. 27, 1787, marks the start of a seminal ...

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 ...