The Federalist Papers (version 2)
Gelesen von Mark F. Smith
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
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“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that way. The Papers are regarded as the best pipeline into understanding the U.S. Constitution and the founding principles of the government it would establish.
I have endeavored here to present these essays, not as articles in a newspaper, but as you might have experienced them if you had sat in a comfortable tavern with a tankard in hand, and listened while these ardent men ranged in front of a friendly fireplace as they attempted to convince you of their arguments.
Following the Revolutionary War, the newly-independent United States of America were organized under the Articles of Confederation. This well-intentioned document was faulty to the purpose, and the new nation rapidly found itself in dire financial distress.
Consequently, in 1787 a Constitutional Convention was called to produce a new blueprint for the government. After completion, that plan was sent to the States in September of that year for ratification, but it immediately came under fire for the powers it granted to the central government.
In New York, views on either side were heated. To persuade the public to support the Constitution for ratification, Alexander Hamilton (who had been a delegate to the Convention) and John Jay (who had helped negotiate the treaty with Great Britain that ended the War), began a series of anonymous essays to educate the citizenry in how the government would be arranged, and why those choices had been made. Later, when Jay was rendered unable to continue by an attack of rheumatism, Virginian James Madison (another Convention delegate who was in New York, serving in the Confederation Congress) was recruited to fill in.
Each wrote essays that were signed “Publius,” the name of a general who had helped to found Rome, to conceal their identities, which might have led to difficulties as Hamilton and Madison had been inside the deliberations at the Convention. These essays were published serially in New York newspapers, eventually reaching the total of 85.
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Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered
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The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservat…
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The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Respect to the Common Defe…
17:51
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Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising the Proper Form of Go…
21:56
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The Same Subject Continued, and the Incoherence of the Objections to the New Pl…
24:57
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On the Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government, Examined and Susta…
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The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments
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The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Am…
20:45
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These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated As To Have No Constitutional C…
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Method of Guarding Against the Encroachments of Any One Department By Appealing…
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The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Bet…
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The Alleged Tendency of the New Plan to Elevate the Few at the Expense of the M…
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Objection That the Number of Members Will Not Be Augmented as the Progress of P…
15:46
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The Power of the Senate to Set as a Court for Impeachments Further Considered
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The Same Subject Continued, and the Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered
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The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Ex…
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The Appointing Power Continued and Other Powers of the Executive Considered
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Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and…
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