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The Federalist Papers were written to the people of New York.
The Federalist Papers (and Anti-Federalist Papers) were addressed to the people of New York, where the constitutional debate was particularly fierce.
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The immediate goal of the Federalist Papers was to gain popular support for the Constitution and to convince the New York legislature to ratify it.
The Federalist papers are one of the reasons the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The main purpose of the Federalist Papers was to explain what the Constitution meant and to fight the Anti-Federalists propaganda.
The Federalist Papers were originally published as individual essays in three New York newspapers, the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser.
The federalist paper supported it The anti-federalist papers opposed it
Hamilton wrote his 51 essays of the Federalist Papers, and devised the idea, because he was becoming increasingly worried over the fate of the new Constitution. New York was a battalion of anti-Federalists who were bent on not ratifying the Constitution. Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers, with James Madison, to provide a breakdown of the Constitution and why it would protect people's rights. The Federalist of the Federalist Papers is NOT the same Federalist of the Federalist Party. Federalists in the Federalist Papers really just means someone who supports the Constitution.
The Federalist Papers were written to get the Constitution ratified in the state of New York, were written for a New York audience, and published in New York. The Constitution had gone into effect before New York had ratified, but New York was crucial to the state of the country. It was this realization that led Alexander Hamilton, along with James Madison and John Jay, to write the Papers.
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