Download And Enjoy The Federalist Papers (Civic Classics) Authored By Alexander Hamilton Presented As Manuscript
best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written" Thomas Jefferson
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, andabove allessential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars.
Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U, S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative minilibrary of perennially vital issues, Whether readers are encountering these classic writings for the first time, or brushing up in anticipation of theth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, these slim volumes will serve as a powerful and illuminating resource for scholars, students, and civicminded citizens.
Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in.
In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory, The Federalist Papers make a powerful case for powersharing between State and Federal authorities and have only risen in legal influence over the last two centuries.
Beemans analysis helps clarify the goals, at once separate and in concert, of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay during their writing, and his selections show the array of issuesboth philosophical and policyspecificcovered by this body of work.
I carry this book with me wherever I go, It's great for light reading when I forget to grab a book from my shelf when I leave the house, The basis in parts from which our government was formed,
For me, the read was as slow as molasses, I think the prose, though interesting, may have had something to do with it, Very helpful in understanding how the Constitution was intended to operate, I learned a lot.,Мадисън
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Who wants The Federalist Papers
Nobody in the world I am glad to have read the introduction to this book and understood the historical context for it.
At a time when the colonies were bound only by the Articles of Confederation and what is now the Constitution was then just a proposition for their review, these three authors used the power of the pen to fight to defend it against its detractors.
Sounds like the subject of a great nonfiction book or a documentary, However, although Madison is the strongest of the three writers, none are all that inspirational in their rhetoric, I found the text dull and historic in the worst possible meaning of the term, A far more entertaining and enlightening read is sitelinkCommon Sense, I have now read/of this Civic Classics series and look forward to finish it by checking out sitelinkAmerican Political Speeches, Of the five I have read, I'd give the strongest recommendation to sitelinkSupreme Court Decisions, These decisions, both past and present, paint the clearest picture of what it means to be American, what the experiment is all about, where it has failed, and where it has succeeded.
Absolutely crucial to understanding the purpose and process of our Constitution, You either agree with the drafters of the Constitution or you don't, Readandespecially. A decent subset of The Federalist Papers, focusing mainly on the iconic entries and the contemporarily relevant ones, "Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series
of essays defending the new United States Constitution,
entitled The Federalist Papers,
The plan was to write a total of twentyfive essays,
the work divided evenly among the three men, In the end,
they wrote eightyfive essays,
in the span of six months, John Jay got sick after writing five,
James Madison wrote twentynine, Hamilton wrote the other fiftyone!"
Okay, what would The Federalist Papers be without quoting some Hamilton For real, many of us were brought here BECAUSE of Hamilton so it only seems fitting.
Anyway, today it seems hard to imagine that at one time the Constitution was not only a revolutionary, but also a controversial idea, With factions fighting to prevent another monarchy from creeping into the new nation, the Federalist Papers were written, anonymously, by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to convince the nation that uniting the states under a Federal system, with rights divided and defined between the state and federal levels, was the best plan for creating a new nation.
All of the papers are beautifully written, written earnestly in hopes of assuaging the fears of a Federal system through highlighting the positives and disproving the negatives of the Constitution.
These papers provided the emphasis our forefathers needed to establish our nation as we know it, so it is something to be thankful for!
Be advised though, these are not ALL of the papers written, but a selection of the ones that were published.
Most of the ones provided were Hamilton's and Madison's, with only one of Jay's five making the cut, The most important documents regarding the founding of the greatest country on earth that no one reads, It's spinetingling to read some of these essays, They're eerily prescient, particularly when it comes to what we're witnessing now, From Essay:
"A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
History will teach us that, the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
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It's also interesting to read, in the Founders' words, about the right to bear arms as a critical check against any excessive military force being used against the People the play of federal versus democratic principles that shape our Constitution the arguments for not needing a Bill of Rights and the role of the Judicial branch, considered the weakest.
I wished this edition had included No,on impeachment. But otherwise a good if dense read,
I did it! I read The Federalist or at least theessays selected for this edition, Am I a real American now
I enjoyed the selection in this Penguin Civics Classics edition, If you want the full collection, the editor recommends the Wesleyan UP edition as the standard text, If I ever come back to The Federalist for a deeper dive, that's the edition I'll pick up, For now, I give the PCC's "Federalist Papers"out ofstars, The papers included in this edition are, . .
No.Introduction
No.Dangers of division among the states
No,Pros and cons of republics vs monarchies
No,Mitigating the dangers of factionalism
No,Problems of scale addressed
No,"Energetic government" in the national interest
No,National and federal characteristics of the government
No,State vs federal power, pt, I
No.State vs federal power, pt, II
No.Clarifications about the separation of powers
No,Protections against legislative overreach
No,Checks and balances
No,The Senate, pt. I
No.The Senate, pt. II
No.Power and process of making treaties
No,Unity in the executive branch
No,Life terms in the judicial branch
No,Objections answered
No.Amendment process and conclusion
One final note, I thought it was interesting how often points made in The Federalist resist our current conservative orthodoxy, I'm sure that certain pundits could explain away Madison and Hamilton's words, that they don't actually apply in our current context the way a plain reading of the text seems to imply, but that would only make the irony of it all more delicious, right
So long as today's liberals are ashamed to reclaim their ideological roots, I imagine we'll be stuck with these onesided and onedimensional political takes on "what the founders really intended.
" Whether liberals should or most would want reclaim The Federalist is another matter entirely, My point is merely that they could, The avenue lies open to them, This slim volume was a wonderful introduction to the Federalist Papers, Some of the other reviewers have complained that this version is abridged but I thought the editor did a wonderful job of choosing the most relevant and interesting essays to include.
He hit the highlights and skipped the boring or redundant essays, Many of the essays that were excluded have to do with taxation, commerce, treaties, etc, I had to read the papers in their entirety while in law school and believe me, it was painful, This abridged version is just the right size for the general public, and allows larger exposure of them, For most people the prospect of reading the complete essays is daunting, Overall a wonderfully edited collection,
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review, This edition is an abridged collection of some of the essaysout of the full, The essays were written in the midst of the Constitution ratification debates to encourage ratification,
If you're interested in how the national government was designed, why certain features were added or not added, these papers will help illuminate, Consider it a user's guide to the Constitution, Where the latter is a shortpage document of the rules of government, these letters expand on why those rules were picked, Why, for example, does the Senate require an older minimum agethan the House of Representativesfor its members Why are judges in the judiciary appointed for life on good behavior, whereas Senators have staggeredyear terms and House of Representatives much shorteryear terms Since the Constitution remains the supreme law of the United States, the Federalist Papers continue to be useful reading for any American citizen who wants to better understand how their government operates or should operate.
The full text of the remaining Federalist Papers are also available from the Library of Congress's archives at: sitelink congress. gov/resources/di while I'm ath way through the book, I admit I'm disappointed, not over the content, but with what's missing, I thought, when I bought it, it'd be all the federalist papers, I knew
they were really just a bunch of essays published in a New York newspaper under the pseudonym 'Plubius', I knew it was written mostly by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, with a few by John Jay.
I knew this was basically arguing for New York to ratify the US Constitution without the Bill of Rights, which wasn't written yet,
I just didn't expect this book to be a weeded out version, Beeman did say of course, after I bought it that he weeded out what he thought notsoapplicable, mainly because a lot of Hamilton's arguments were against the Articles of Confederation, which America was 'operating' under.
Operating in quotes, because America was failing,
When Hamilton/Madison/Jay were writing these essays, America faced all kinds of problems assocated with a toolimited government, too much state power which they consequently argued against each other, no way to really raise money to pay off debts, which led to Shay's Rebellion.
Still, I wonder if some of the Hamilton essays missing from this book may still be applicable against those who subscribe to Grover Norquist's superweak government shrink it then drown it.
Maybe Beeman was right in lopping off those other essays, but reading this chopped up book, you'll never know, I guess I gotta go buy the full edition, This is a great book to read based on the United States constitution in which Alexander Hamilton James Madison and John Jay focused on, Also they pointed that We as the people of United States created the constitution, At the same time it was pointed out that if we have justice there will be no government because the people will over rule, For the most part all three of them pointed out some of the strengths and weaknesses of each of our powers that organizes the United States such as the legislature judicial and executive branch has an important role of shaping out country.
Most importantly how each power should over lap each other to maintain the balance each branch has, .