(3) The Federalist Papers were written by three of our founding fathers' named John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Jay. They are a collection of 85 newspaper articles which were written in a period between 1787 and 1788 to promote the constitution of the United States. Adams, Hamilton, and Jay were trying to alleviate the fears of anti-federalists by arguing the need for the states to give the federal government more power and to replace the Articles of the Confederation with the Constitution that was being discussed at the same time at the Philadelphia Convention. Some of the articles were written with the purpose of showing why the Constitution was needed, and others were written as counter arguments to opponents of the Constitution. The articles made it clear that the states would have their rights protected under the new Constitution rather than weaken them, all the while giving the government the ability to deal with federal debt and to make decisions on foreign policy. While there were many more issues than those two, the new Constitution was the answer to the mounting problems of the day and how to prevent similar future crisis. It is unknown how much of an effect that the Federalist Papers had in influencing the public's view of the Constitution, but the articles are important today as they help us to determine the intention for the Constitution and how it applies today.
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It isn't important to know every detail of all 85 articles, but giving someone the context and purpose of the articles will help to communicate the importance of
It isn't important to know every detail of all 85 articles, but giving someone the context and purpose of the articles will help to communicate the importance of