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  The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (Paperback) By (author) Alexander Hamilton, By (author) James Madison, By (author) John Jay, By (author) Lawrence Goldman

  

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  Short Description for The Federalist PapersThe Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 09 October 2008
  • Format: Paperback 512 pages
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  • Categories: Constitution: Government & The State | Legal History | Constitutional & Administrative Law | History Of The Americas | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • ISBN 13: 9780192805928 ISBN 10: 0192805924
  • Sales rank: 134,420

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• 'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens of New York State to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution; together they were convinced of the need to weld thirteen disparate and newly-independent states into a union. Their essays make the case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers who created the United States, and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This new edition pays full attention to the classical learning of their authors and the historical examples they deploy.