The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in
the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents
in American political history, laying out the principles that still
guide our democracy today. 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, and their essays make a compelling
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 and a canonical text in
the development of western political thought. This is the first edition
to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references
in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three
authors,
which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long
tradition of self-governing states.
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