The American Experiment

In 1793. after Alexander Hamilton published his Pacificus essays in defense of President Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality, Jefferson...

Emer de Vattel, a Swiss writer, published in 1758   The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Aff...

This passage appears in the 63rd number of The Federalist . Madison is explaining the utility of a senate. A nation, he thinks, needs not on...

In Federalist No. 15, Hamilton takes up the question of “the insufficiency of the present confederation to the preservation of the unio...

In his speech of June 28, 1787, in the Federal Convention, James Madison was debating with representatives of the small states the questio...

John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson drafted The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, issued July 6, 1775, by "The...