The Federalist papers
By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lawrance Goldman.
Contributors: Hamilton, Alexander.; Madison, James.; Jay, John.; Goldman, Lawrence.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780192805928
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources; Constitutional law -- United States
Genres: Sources.
Work titles: Federalist.
Description: "In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens of New York State to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution; together they were convinced of the need to weld thirteen disparate and newly-independent states into a union. Their essays make the case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day." "The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers who created the United States, and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This new edition pays full attention to the classical learning of their authors and the historical examples they deploy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the text; title: Synopsis of the federalist papers; title: Select bibliography; title: A chronology of events 1763/1791; title: Map of the United States circa 1787; title: The federalist papers; title: Appendix : the Constitution of the United  States; title: Explanatory notes; title: Thematic index.