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Federalist No. 51 addresses the separation of powers, the federal structure of government and the maintenance of checks and balances by "opposite and rival interests" within the national government. One of Federalist No. 51's most important ideas, an explanation of checks and balances, is the often-quoted phrase, "Ambition must be made to ...
The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the ...
Paul Leicester Ford's summary preceding Federalist No. 10, from his 1898 edition of The Federalist. September 17, 1787, marked the signing of the final document. By its own Article Seven, the constitution drafted by the convention needed ratification by at least nine of the thirteen states, through special conventions held in each state.
Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to the works written by the Founding Fathers who were ... Federalist No. 10, 51: Extent of Union, states' rights ...
Federalist No. 59 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-ninth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on February 22, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius , the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published.
The Federalist Papers were not written primarily to inform the people, per say, of what was contained in the Constitution, but to rather use philosophical and logical arguments to prove that the system proposed by the Constitution, was, in fact, one of the best. --5ptcalvinist 03:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Federalist No. 52, an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton [fn 1], is the fifty-second essay out of eighty-five making up The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written during the Constitution's ratification process, most of them written either by Hamilton or Madison.
Federalist No. 47 is the forty-seventh paper from The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on January 30, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius , the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published, but its actual author was James Madison .