Federalist
| dc.contributor | Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:57:33Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:57:33Z |
| dc.date.created | 1788 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-10 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1786 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1786 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1786 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 Madison, James, 1751-1836 Jay, John, 1745-1829 These 85 essays were originally published anonymously, under the name of "Publius", to urge the people of New York to ratify the United States Constitution which had been proposed in the Summer before the publication of the first essay. The essays therefore give detailed explanations of particular provisions of the Constition and, given that two of the authors were members of the Constitutional Convention, the Papers are still often used to aid the interpretation of the intention of those drafting the Constitution |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 1.16 MB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Essays -- United States -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Legal works -- United States -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Laws -- United States -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Constitutions -- United States -- 18th century |
| dc.title | Federalist |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 1223732 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<dTitle type=main>The Federalist Papers
<dTitle type=sub>A Collection of Essays Written in Support of the Constitution of the United States
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>Alexander Hamilton</dAuthor></byLine>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>James Madison</dAuthor></byLine>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>John Jay</dAuthor></byLine>
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General Introduction
For the Independent Journal.
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<byLine>by
<dAuthor>HAMILTON</dAuthor></byLine>
<salute>To the People of the State of New York:</salute>
<p>AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the
subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on
a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject
speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences
nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare
of the parts of whi . . .
