Its goal was to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The first 77 of the 85 essays were published in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser in 1787 and 1788.
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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay David Wootton. Hamilton, but mistakes were introduced as well as being corrected. McLean (or perhaps Hamilton) summarized the contents of each essay in the table of contents (reproduced here).
Thanks should also go to Janine Turner, Cathy Gillespie, and Amanda Hughes at Constituting America where I have had the opportunity to write several entries on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and The Federalist Papers.
Seventy-seven of these essays were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and August 1788.
The Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. Written to New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 to urge the ratification of the proposed new Constitution, the papers received immediate respect.
In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America’s most famous political tract.
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The Madisonian approach to institutional design, as set forth in The Federalist Papers, is examined from the point of view of leading theorists of the "public choice" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy. ...