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The Federalist Papers

by: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781612032917
ISBN: 1612032915
Item Dimensions: 69925125752
Label: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: August 01, 2011
Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Studio: Bottom of the Hill Publishing

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The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist; or, The New Constitution, was published in two volumes in 1788 by J. and A. McLean. The series' correct title is The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century. The authors of The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay, wanted both to influence the vote in favor of ratification and to shape future interpretations of the Constitution.

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"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States.

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