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Federalist Papers explained – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by on February 1, 2012

“The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of theUnited States Constitution written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. 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.[1] The series’ correct title is The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century.

“The authors of The Federalist wanted both to influence the vote in favor of ratification and to shape future interpretations of the Constitution.

“However, the authors of the Federalist papers also had a greater plan in mind. According to Federalist 1:

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.[2]

“According to historian Richard B. Morris, they are an “incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer.”[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers

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