The primary purpose of the Federalist Papers was to support and encourage the ratification of the United States Constitution. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison were the authors.
Alexander Hamilton organized writing the Federalist Papers, a series of 85 essays he, James Madison and John Jay penned in support of ratifying the US Constitution.
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Read the federalist papers. The federalists papers were written to support the ratification of the constitution. The anti-federalists were those opposed to the constitution.
The essays were addressed, "To the People of the State of New York." the fedreralist papers were written To support ratification of the Constitution.
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They have have no significance during the Revolutionary War, as they had yet to be written. The Federalist Papers were written in support of ratification of the U.S. Constitution roughly a decade after the war.
One of the most important defenses of the Constitution appeared in a series of essays that became known as the Federalist Papers. These essays supporting the Constitution were written anonymously under the name Publius. They were actually written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.
A collection of essays defending the Constitution can be found in a book entitled "New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution." It was written by Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan.
The 85 Federalist Papers were written with the express purpose of selling states on the idea of ratifying the new Constitution. Many believed the Constitution concentrated too much power in the Federal government and reduced the states' sovereign authority, so there was hesitancy about trading the imperfect Articles of Confederation for the US Constitution. p.s. GO P.PANTHERS!!
These are the Federalist papers. They were written to help give the American people a better idea of what laws would be governing them.