Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. They remain perhaps the best and clearest explanation of the document that is the cornerstone of the United States government.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. Consequently, they have been quoted almost 300 times in Supreme Court cases. They are a window not only into the structure and content of the document, but also the reasons for the structure and content, written by men who helped author the document. Although many at the time guessed the true identities of the authors, it would be a few years before the authors were confirmed to be Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, Hamilton and Madison both being delegates at the convention.Īlthough the articlesâ influence on the Constitutionâs ratification is debatedânewspapers were largely local at the time, so few outside New York saw the articlesâtheir influence on the interpretation of the Constitution within the judiciary is immense.
When the articles were collected and published as a book early the following year, the authors added another eight articles.
#THE FEDERALIST PAPERS SERIES#
In New York State, a member of the convention decided to launch into the fray he and two other men he recruited began writing their own anonymous series defending the proposed Constitution, each one signed âPublius.â They published seventy-seven articles in four different New York papers over the course of several months. When Congress released the proposed Constitution to the states for ratification in the fall of 1787, reaction was swift: in newspapers throughout each state, columnists were quick to condemn the radical reworking of the nationâs formative document. Over the next several months, the delegates worked to produce the document that would become the U.S. The Articles had created an intentionally weak central government, and that weakness had brought the nation to a crisis in only a few years. In early 1787, the Congress of the United States called a meeting of delegates from each state to try to fix what was wrong with the Articles of Confederation. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannicaâs Great Books of the Western World The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton John Jay James Madisonġ95,383 words (11 hours 51 minutes) with a reading ease of 37.37 (very difficult) The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
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