By the time Alexander Hamilton died on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey, the power of the Federalist Party was in terminal decline. Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton ...

For much of its history, the political landscape of the United States has seen two dominant forces: the Democrats and ...

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

Fellow Ghanaians, in the Federalist NO. 78, Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the Constitution of the United ...

America’s struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries. Thomas ...

Donald Trump is often described as a threat to democracy. His behaviour after the 2020 election was nothing short of despicable. But only dills would claim that democracy is automatically safe in the ...

The authors of the Constitution envisioned a president above partisan politics. In George Washington, they chose an individual who scorned political parties, calling them "potent engines, by which ...

The Democratic-Republican Party of the 1790s was a response to the Federalist Party led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.

As Kamala Harris prepares to lead the Democrats in November, she represents a party deeply intertwined with the U.S’ ...

In sum, although Alexander Hamilton and other leaders of the Federalist Party argued for an expansive reading of the spending power, their reading was, on the whole, rejected both by Congress and ...

He barely got the job. Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Party’s de facto chief, disliked Adams and preferred South Carolina’s Thomas Pinckney. At the time, voters cast ballots for electors ...