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2 days ago · The Federalist Papers, which advocated the ratification of the Constitution, were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Jay. George Washington was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later president of the Constitutional Convention.
2 days ago · The Federalist Papers, by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explain the Constitution, but such essays are foreign to 21 st Century Americans. Constitutional Sound Bites translates an 18th Century message into a 21st Century format with 150 questions and answers, organized from the Preamble to the 10 th Amendment.
2 days ago · 4. Question: Name a war the U.S. fought in the 1800s. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Answer: The early United States sure got busy. If you could name one of the following wars, you’re on your way to earning that citizenship. The War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War were all fought in the 1800s.
5 days ago · John Adams, the first vice president (1789–97) and second president (1797–1801) of the United States. He was an early advocate of American independence and a major figure in the Continental Congress. He was regarded as one of the most significant statesmen of the revolutionary era.
- What were John Adams’s accomplishments?John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- When did John Adams become president?Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), A...
- What was John Adams’s family like?John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- What was John Adams’s early life like?John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
5 days ago · The three authors of this article, published in a western Massachusetts newspaper, cite the provisions that allowed slavery to continue as among the primary reasons for their dissent to the Massachusetts Convention, which had ratified the Constitution on February 6th.
2 days ago · 153 James Madison, Federalist No. 10, in Federalist Papers, 74. 154 Madison, Federalist No. 10, 75. 155 Roosevelt, “Commonwealth Club Adress.”. 156 Roosevelt, “Address at Jefferson Day Dinner,” April 18, 1932, APP. Drafts of the speech show FDR’s approach to prevailing tariff proposals was to “weave them together.”
3 days ago · The Center for the Study of Federalism is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research and education institution dedicated to supporting and advancing scholarship and public understanding of federal theories, principles, institutions, and processes as practical means of organizing power in free societies.
