Dimensions
129 x 195 x 24mm
'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.'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 Federallist 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.
