The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison is an iconic collection of essays that laid the philosophical groundwork for the United States Constitution.

Scholars have long regarded this work as a milestone in political science and a classic of American political theory.

To this day, the Federalist Papers remain “an authoritative resource for academics, lawyers, and judges—including Supreme Court justices—to use to interpret the Constitution and to determine its original, or historic, meaning” ...

A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787, was published in two volumes in 1788 by J. and ...

The Federalist Papers' is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.

This edition includes all 85 articles, most of which were originally published in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between 1787 and 1788.

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 two-volume compilation of these 77 essays and eight others was published as ...