THE FEDERALIST PAPERS (1787-88), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, three of America's key founding fathers, who served in many positions in government, including (respectively), as Secretary of State, President and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. All footnotes are included. This electronic edition © Copyright 2003, 2005 Lonang Institute.
The Federalist Papers is a series of essays designed to convince the new nation of the United States to adopt a federal constitution. Most of the essays were written by Hamilton and Madison, but all of them were written anonymously under the name of "Publius" to avoid repercussions from their political opponents. The papers were originally addressed to the people of New York and were first published in that state, but soon became essential reading in all of the U.S. states.
335 pages, 85 papers (chapters), with chapter bookmarks. In portable document (.pdf) file format, printable, electronically searchable by word or phrase. This is a fully digital edition of this work - it is not a facsimile reproduction. Do you want a book that just looks pretty, or do you want it in a form you can really use?
"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind." A. Hamilton, from The Federalist Papers.
