Anthony A. Peacock

A brief, useful -- if not terribly deep -- intro to The Federlist. Highlights some pithy quotes from same at the end. Was hoping for more info on who wrote which of the 85 or so papers. John Jay only wrote five, Madison wrote 26, Hamilton wrote 51, and three were written by Madison and Hamilton jointly. According to Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton, the joint effort to produce these daily contributions to a New York newspaper was of exhausting and monumental proportions. Hamilton coordinated the whole enterprise, and each was published, in accordance with custom at the time, under a pseudonym -- a joint one in this case -- Publius. In my humble opinion, reading these papers to "refresh" our understanding of what the Founding Fathers intended by framing the U.S. Constitution is very important for voters everywhere.… (mehr)