No one was better prepared to defend the Constitution than New Yorker Alexander Hamilton. In 1787-88 he worked with John Jay and James Madison to write series of 85 essays in support of the ...

A single example will illustrate the point. In the late 1790s Alexander Hamilton, an outspoken advocate of loose construction of the Constitution as well as of using the Necessary and Proper ...

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, ...

As Alexander Hamilton observed of the unamended constitutional text in The Federalist No. 84: “Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain everything they have no need ...

helped ensure the ratification of the Constitution, and saved the fledgling United States from financial ruin. He died in a tragic duel with his political rival, Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton ...

Alexander Hamilton, the great champion of a powerful ... nearly every literate American had read the Constitution. As the bruising battle for ratification was about to make clear, you could ...

Opinion: If we want the president to have the power to pardon nonviolent offenses, we must accept that the president is ...

The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution ... by the justice system, as Alexander Hamilton wrote.

Madison agreed and concluded that laws such as is proposed in Referendum 1 would create a situation whereby “the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would no longer be the ...