Federalist Papers

No, they were circulated through the three biggest New York newspapers to reach all of the colonies.

To show anti-federalists as well as the general public that the Constitution is a great thing.

No one wrote the Federalist Papers under the name "Caesar." All three authors, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, wrote under the pen name "Publius."

One of the authors of essays that were later assembled into a collection called the Anti-Federalist Papers signed his work "Brutus," the name of the man who killed Julius Caesar. Other Anti-Federalist writers used names like "Cato," "Federal Farmer," and "Centinel," among others.

To show anti-federalists as well as the general public that the Constitution is a great thing.

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the federalist papers were written as essays that argued a federalist viewpoint on the constitution.

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Individual liberty is preserved through individual diligence. Though words can advocate liberty, or proclaim absolute rights, it is only through action that government is kept small so that individual liberty can be maximized. The Federalist Papers advocated ratification of the Constitution by arguing what the Constitution was and was not. The two factions at the time were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists were those who supported the Constitution and were generally the wealthy, merchants, and those for whom a powerful centralized government was more important than individual liberty. The Anti-Federalists, on the other hand, led by Patrick Henry, were generally small farmers, business owners, and the working class who believed government was a necessary evil best kept small and local. They saw the newly proposed Constitution as a threat to both individual liberty and States' rights. The Federalist Papers were a collection of letters written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, all signed "Publius", designed to persuade New Yorkers to support the ratification of the new U.S. Constitution. The compromise that was made to get the Anti-Federalists to ratify the Constitution was the agreement to create a "Bill of rights" whereby specific individual rights would be outlined, and further restrictions would be placed on the Federal Government, such as the 9th and 10th Amendments which deny Federal authority for any power not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. (Which is why 90% of the Federal Government today can be accurately described as Unconstitutional) (www.PatriotMusic.com)

The federalist papers were 85 letters written to newspapers to urge ratification of the constitution. They were written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to address the objections of opponents who feared a tyrannical central government and that it would supersede states rights and encroach on individual rights. The main argument of the letters was that the proposed system would preserve the Union and the government would act in the national interests.

The Federalist Papers was a group of essays written by the Founding Fathers of the United States. They include Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. It was their reasoning behind what would eventually become a large part of the political philosophy of the new nation.

The former colony of New York, a center of commerce and important politics, had a great influence on what the new Federal Government would be like. It was essential that New York be part of the process.

The volume was put together in 1787-8 for the purpose of having the new nation's political structure of the soon to be Federal Government, read by lawyers, statesmen, and politicians. Any common man had access to the main ideas contained in them.

Its important to note that the US Revolution was a citizen--participation war. Politics were a part of daily life in the new peoples' nation.

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Of all the Federalist Papers written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, perhaps the most famous and the one most quoted is Federalist No. 10, by Madison. Many people had argued against the new Constitution claiming that the US would be too large to govern as a democracy (republic) and had too many groups, or “factions,” as political parties were then called. While Madison acknowledged that there were many differing factions, he also indicated that a democratic form of government, using the ideal of majority rule, would tame the factions and cause them to work together as much as possible. He claimed that the republican form of government created by the new Constitution would allow all the factions the room and venues to express themselves and to influence the workings of government by getting their members elected and/or appointed to offices. Minority groups would be protected because the factions would have to negotiate their differences. In this way, the republic would create a system of government in which the majority would rule but the ideas of the minority would have to be taken into consideration. Numerous factions would also mean that no one group would be able to take complete control of the government and this would give rise to what Madison called “politics,” namely, the art of governing.

There was one main purpose-- Because of the extreme controversy over the ratification of the constitution among the states, and in particular, New York (Alexander Hamilton's state), AH decided that extreme action needed to be taken in order to convince the New York people that the constitution was valid and would not usurp the authority of state government (though many of his wishes for the federal government would have done that). He recruited James Madison and John Jay to help him publish in many of the newspapers of New York four times a week. The eighty-five letters addressed conflicts by interpreting the constitution so that it could be understood and the motives behind the declarations were made clear. Several points were made in these papers that were not directly stated in the constitution (which addressed New York itself, assuaging its fears particularly), and eventually New York was convinced.

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The ratification of Constitution.

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.