Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, ...

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the U.S. Constitution? For many people, the answer probably involves one of the famous individual liberties that are spelled out in the ...

The Anti-Federalists were no monolith. Patrick Henry thundered against tyranny, George Mason insisted on a Bill of Rights, but lesser-known figures like Brutus, Federal Farmer, and Cato—pseudonyms ...

Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...

In this episode of “The Opinions,” David French breaks down why parts of the original Constitution lend themselves to abuse — and which three amendments could stop another shutdown like this one. “But ...

Federalists carried the day at the Pennsylvania ratifying convention in October 1787, but Antifederal arguments were spreading rapidly. Newspapers all across the country were publishing works by ...

During the Constitution ratification debates between the Federalists (who supported ratification) and the Anti-Federalists (who opposed it), one of the most strident areas of disagreement was the ...

Regarding the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court ruling last week, it is really the conflict between Federalism and Anti-federalism. Does the administrative branch of the federal government have the right to ...