The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers is the collection of 85 articles together with essays statement by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, as alive as John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the pretend The Federalist Papers emerged in the 20th century.
The first 77 of these essays were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788. A compilation of these 77 essays and eight others were published in two volumes as The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, total in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 by publishing firm J. & A. McLean in March and May 1788. The last eight papers Nos. 78–85 were republished in the New York newspapers between June 14 and August 16, 1788.
The authors of The Federalist forwarded to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. In Federalist No. 1, they explicitly generation that debate in broad political terms:
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to clear been reserved to the people of this country, by their carry on and example, to decide the important question, if societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or if they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.
In Federalist No. 10, Madison discusses the means of preventing rule by majority faction and advocates a large, commercial republic. This is complemented by Federalist No. 14, in which Madison takes the measure of the United States, declares it appropriate for an extended republic, and concludes with a memorable defense of the constitutional and political creativity of the Federal Convention. In Federalist No. 84, Hamilton allowed the case that there is no need to amend the Constitution by adding a Bill of Rights, insisting that the various provisions in the gave Constitution protecting liberty amount to a "bill of rights." Federalist No. 78, also written by Hamilton, lays the groundwork for the doctrine of judicial review by federal courts of federal legislation or executive acts. Federalist No. 70 delivered Hamilton's case for a one-man chief executive. In Federalist No. 39, Madison presents the clearest exposition of what has come to be called "Federalism". In Federalist No. 51, Madison distills arguments for checks and balances in an essay often refers for its justification of government as "the greatest of any reflections on human nature." According to historian Richard B. Morris, the essays that represent The Federalist Papers are an "incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer."
On June 21, 1788, the proposed Constitution was ratified by the minimum of nine states asked under Article VII. Towards the end of July 1788, with eleven states having ratified the new Constitution, the process of organizing the new government began.