The Federalist Papers

1. A series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in the late 1780s to persuade the voters of New York to adopt the Constitution. The essays are considered a classic defense of the American system of government, as well as a classic practical application of political principles.

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The group’s statement of principles, to which Ms. Field pays insufficient attention, asserts a form of nationalism that is disconnected from America’s actual political traditions, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.

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They fought a revolution so that we as a people could solve disagreements by what Alexander Hamilton called in the Federalist Papers “reflection and choice” over “accident and force.”

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There is a fascinating assessment of the separation of powers in the US which includes reference to both former President Richard Nixon's limited use of the same powers and the Federalist Papers of Hamilton and Madison.

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As the journalist Josh Marshall put it on this week about a different 200-year-old document: “Anyone who has read the Federalist Papers in their totality knows that somewhere between a third and a half of the essays are very specifically talking about Donald Trump.”

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In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton explained that this confirmation process was a bulwark against cronyism and a safeguard of good government.

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