Capture The Federalist Papers Translated By Alexander Hamilton Shown As Script

I'm going to begin with a bitch,
THIS "BOOK" WAS NOT WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON, IT IS NOT A BOOK, IT IS A COMPILATION OF SEVERAL ESSAYS WRITTEN UNDER THE PSEUDONYM "PUBLIUS" AND THE AUTHORS WERE ANONYMOUS FOR A LONG TIME.

The true authorship of these was only known several years after the fact, And took several decades after the authors had been determined to finalize exactly who wrote what,
Furthermore, virtually ever copy includes at least a copy of the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and if you're very lucky The Articles of confederation.

None of the US foundational documents were conceivably written by Alexander Hamilton, However, he did write the vast majority of the Federalist Papers,

There are hundreds of printings of this work, The copy I read well overtimes well, the firstof the federalists or so, anyway

was a deep red mass market paperback.
I can't remember the publisher, There was a publisher that made all its mass market "classic" paperbacks in deep red for awhile, It had the lovely disintegrating acidic paper, and the binding was just starting to fall apart as I slugged the bottle of champagne and vowed to not read the work again until I was.


Anyway, this is an incredible book if you're willing to read it well, That means at least one week for one paper, I'm not kidding. It benefits very much from close reading,

All the hype is true, but reading it poorly makes it sound like pithy bullshit, Follow the terminology in the paper, and put together the relationships between all terms, Anyway, read it. Don't let thestar rating mislead you, This is a brilliant summation of the Constitution by three of the smartest Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton first Secretary of the Treasury, James Madison Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the U.
S. , and John Jay first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, It is such a shame that there are so few political geniuses in government today, The breadth of their knowledge, particularly Madison's, boggles the mind, Except for the fact that they took the view that the Constitution didn't need a bill of rights that was passed after the writing of these papers, you will find no better examination of the Constitution.
But that is one of the problems with "The Federalist Papers," it examines the structure of the federal government in detail brilliantly too, but most of today's Constitutional questions revolve around the amendments to the Constitution.
So, if you were looking for the Founding Fathers' ideas about the meaning behind the second amendment, you better find a different book.
The other problem with the book is that while the language is not archaic yet, it is still difficult for the average reader to grasp.
If you didn't get a high verbal score on the SATs, look for the version in modern English.
So really, this is a great book to read for the serious political scientist, but the average reader should look for something easier or limit themselves to Papersand.
Read the Federalist Papers. Then, just for kicks, switch on Hannity amp Colmes, or Crossfire, or read USA Today, . . and then ask yourself, WHAT THE FUCKING CHRIST HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY Then crawl into a corner and whimper for eight hours straight.
That's what I did. It is truly a pity that we have become so antiracially prejudiced that we have a generation or more of people who can't see the genius in the statecraft managed by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the rest of the Founders.
These scholars did their homework in politics, history, philosophy and law, They studied the reasons for the decline of the Roman empire, They studied Blackstone. They knew the strengths and the weaknesses of monarchies, aristocracies, and democracies, And they managed to negotiate a system that essentially amounts to the equivalent of a country created by college seminar.


So many of us like to talk online about how to save the world, imagine that we solved it, and then do nothing about it.
The stakes were real in their deliberations, and they came out on the other end with a system that, while imperfect, helps to keep the competing ambitions in check.


To get a sense of its enduring influence, a study published by the University of Minnesota Law School showed that five of the essays in this volume have been cited by the United States Supreme Court at leasttimes each.


It's not always a pageturner, granted, But there are here and there little gems about the human condition in a world of wouldbe tyrants.
Every American ought to read it, certainly anyone who pretends to any interest in its laws and politics.


My favorite line: "But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary, In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
"

The more I reflected on these essays, I came to the conclusion that liberty and security can continue under this system only so long as Americans continue to maintain a solid moral compass and that they continue to pay attention to the goingson of their government.
So many of the safeguards built into the Constitution require voters to remain vigilant and largely wise, Even a Constitution so brilliantly conceived as this will not prevent the downfall of a nation of people who are indifferent to evil or too distracted to do anything about it.


Two quotes to recommend this book, One from a Supreme Court Justice, the other from an American prophetstatesman,

"Read the Federalist Papers, Buy a hardcover copy, which should be dogeared on your desks, That, more than anything else, can give you a real appreciation for the meaning of the Constitution, the reasons for its finely wrought provisions, and the brilliance of the Founders who created it.
It used to be taught in our schools, but alas is unknown nowadays to most Americans, " Antonin Scalia

"We should understand the Constitution as the founders meant that it should be understood.
We can do this by reading their words about it, such as those contained in the Federalist Papers.
Such understanding is essential if we are to preserve what God has given us, " Ezra Taft BensonThe Federalist Papers are a series ofessays written inandto promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
I found it to be the equivalent of reading apaged legal brief written by anth century lawyer.
Actually, that's exactly what it is, I found sitelinkthese lectures helpful in describing the debates that took place at the time these papers were written.
I was impressed at the extent and variety of the arguments of "The Federalist Papers" in defending the proposed Constitution.
I guess I can be thankful to live in a country where so much effort and care was put into forming the government.


Here's my favorite quotation from The Federalist Papers:
"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
" James Madison, Federalist No,

The following are copies of comments I made on our reading group's blog while reading The Federalist Papers.
Posting them here without editing is easier that trying to write a review:

Federalist No.

Opposition to the Bill of Rights
Since the Bill of Rights is considered very important to most Americans today, it is interesting to note the reasons why they were not included in the original constitution.
The Federalist Papers specifically Federalist No,are notable for their opposition to what later became the United States Bill of Rights,

The idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was originally controversial because the Constitution, as written, did not specifically enumerate or protect the rights of the people, rather it listed the powers of the government and left all that remained to the states and the people.


Lectures about Federalist and AntiFederalist debate:
Here's a link to information about twelve lectures about the Federalist Papers: sitelink co/ROYNK

Federalist No,
Causes of factions and republican versus democratic government

Some things I found of interest about No.
is that it mentions some to the causes of factions between citizens and discusses the differences between a democracy and a republic.


I found the following quotation regarding disparity of wealth of particular interest in light of recent statistics showing that the disparity has become greater in recent years:

”But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
”

Regarding democratic government, the following quotation is of interest:

”The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter.
”

Note that “former” is referring to “republican” and “latter” is referring to "democratic" government,

Free EText
The Library of Congress provides the Federalist Papers free as online etext based on archives from Project Gutenberg sitelink loc. gov/home/histdox/fedpapers. html


Message from: Christopher Nov,:am
I don't quite know what this amounts to:
"as online etext based on archives from Project Gutenberg.
"
"Based on" seems to me to mean something like "created with the original as a starting point but different from the original.
" It seems to suggest that the Thomas version is different from the Gutenberg version, Is this the case If so, what is the relationship of the Thomas text to the "original" Gutenberg text on which it is "based"

My Reply:
If you go to the following link you will find a discussion of the fact that there are "many available versions of the papers.
"
sitelinkLINK TO DISCUSSION OF SOURCES
I take this to mean that since multiple sources vary that some judgement is used by the compilers on what is made available for public downloading.
Thus what the Library of Congress provides is what the scholars at Project Gutenberg have decided to make available.
They have used the term "based on" to describe its source, and to explain why others may have a slightly different version.


Questions and Answers about The Federalist Papers
Here's sitelinkA LINK to some interesting questions and answers about The Federalist Papers.


Dates of When States Adopted the Constitution
Here's sitelinkA LINK to a listing of the dates that various states ratified the Constitution.


Eleven of the thirteen States approved The Constitution by the summer of, It's interesting to note that North Carolina did not enter the Union until Nov,,or a year later after the new government was well on its way, The first N. C. convention July,refused, by a vote ofto, to ratify the Constitution because of the lack of a Bill of Rights and in the fear that the strong National government would in time overbear State authority.


Rhode Island, which did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention, was last of all by approving it on May,, two years after the first eleven.
By that time the new U, S. A. government began to deal with it as a foreign country and subjected it to taxes on its exports.


How about the AntiFederalist
In case you'd like the see the other side of the debate, the following is a link to a collection of the AntiFederalist Papers:
sitelink barefootsworld. net/antifed
It's interesting to note that many of the very dire predictions made by the Antifederalists have proven correct, although some took longer than others for their realization.
On the other hand, if the Constitution had not been adopted the dire predicted consequences made by the Federalists would have probably been proven correct.


Why were pseudonyms used
Here's sitelinkLINK TO A LIST of pseudonyms used in the American constitutional debates.
I can find no rational explanation why everybody both Federalists and AntiFederalists used pseudonyms, Apparently it was simply established practice in theth andth centuries for political articles to be signed with pseudonyms.
Since our book group has read "Plutarch's Lives," we are already familiar with Publius Valerius Publicola after which the Pseudonym "Plublius" was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay.


Did the Federalists believe that the States had the right to secede
A littleknown fact of the Constitution is that two of the largest states Virginia and New York made the right to withdraw from the union explicit in their acceptance of the Constitution.
sitelinkSource

Also, Alexander Hamilton in paperappeals to what he calls in his words “that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government and against the usurpation of the national rulers may be exerted by the states.
” And then in paperHamilton refers to, “an immediate revolt of the great body of the people headed and directed by the state governments,” as the means of checking the central government.


And in civil war or revolutionary language with a similar meaning is found in Madisons later restatement of his claim that the states have a checking power over the national government.
As Madison puts it in paper, “Ambitious encroachments of the federal government on the authority of the state governments would not excite the opposition of a single state or of a few states only, they would be signals of general alarm.
Every government would espouse the common cause, A correspondence would be opened, plans of resistance would be concerted,” he says,

The Madisonian Republic
The following is a link to an edited excerpt from Lecture“The Madisonian Republic” by Thomas L.
Pangle, published as part of the series, “Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution,” published by The Teaching Company.

sitelinkLINK TO LECTURETRANSCRIPT

Argument over Representation
The following is a link to an edited excerpt from Lecture“The Argument over Representation” by Thomas L.
Pangle, published as part of the series, “Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution,” published by The Teaching Company.

sitelinkLINK TO LECTURETRANSCRIPT,