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Apr 25, 2024 · The Federalist Papers were a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pen name "Publius." This guide compiles Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and a print bibliography.
May 13, 2024 · Federalist Party, early U.S. national political party that advocated a strong central government and held power from 1789 to 1801, during the rise of the country’s political system. The term ‘federalist’ was first used in 1787 to describe the supporters of the newly written Constitution.
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Apr 25, 2024 · The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time.
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The Federalist Papers defended a new form of federalism: what it called “federation” as differentiated from “confederation.” There were precursors for this usage; The Federalist Paperssolidified it. All subsequent federalism has been influenced by the example of “federation” in the United States; indeed, the success of it in the United States has l...
Despite The Federalist’s strong preference for coordinate powers, there are important deviations from it. For example, there are “concurrent” or overlapping powers, such as taxation. This, Hamilton says in The FederalistNo. 32, necessarily follows from “the division of sovereign power”: each level of government needs it in order to function with “f...
The Federalist Papers have been used with increasing frequency as a guide for interpreting the Constitution. Bernard Bailyn (2003) has counted the frequency and found an almost linear progression: from occasional use by the Supreme Courtin the years just after 1789 to more frequent use with every passing stage in American history. Much of this use ...
The success of the modern federation in the United States after 1789 made it the main norm for subsequent federalism. The Federalist Papersprovided the template for federation building; Hamilton was celebrated as its greatest evangelist. Switzerland reformed its confederation in 1848 and 1870 along the lines of modern federation. The new Latin Amer...
May 8, 2023 · The Federalist Papers. Appearing in New York newspapers as the New York Ratification Convention met in Poughkeepsie, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote as Publius and addressed the citizens of New York through the Federalist Papers.
The essays, which appeared in newspapers addressed to the people of the state of New York, are known as the Federalist Papers. They are regarded as one of the most authoritative sources on the meaning of the Constitution, including constitutional principles such as checks and balances, federalism, and separation of powers.
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The Federalist sets out to defend the proposed U.S. Constitution. Its eighty-five papers were written to support pro-ratification candidates in the election of members to the New York ratifying convention: the papers began to appear in newspapers in October 1787.
