The Federalist Papers

James Madison · Alexander Hamilton · John Jay

Mar 2017 · Author's Republic · Narrated by Multiple Narrators

About this audiobook

Written by Alexander Hamilton, John Madison and John Jay - three of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America - The Federalist Papers combined to form one of the most important document in American history.

Containing a collection of 85 detailed papers about the US Constitution and the explanation of the various laws that the Government itself has to abide by, along with every single one of its branches, this writing presented more or less in laymen terms the exact reasons why ratifying the Constitution was a good idea. The Papers offer a detailed outline on the separation of powers and on how political power has to be used within severe limitation in order to prevent the people from having to give up their freedom and rights as citizens.

Written in a time when the ratification of the Constitution still hung in the balance, they acted as a valuable incentive to help inform and convince both state legislators and the general population of its crucial importance. To exemplify the value of The Federalist Papers, it is worth mentioning the suggestion that the late historian Clinton Rossiter made regarding anyone who didn't wish to be burdened with reading all 85 of the papers included in this work. He recommended a number of papers as the ones he considered to be the "most important," while later admitting that whoever read that selection would want to continue with the rest as well.

The Federalist Papers played a major role in the acceptance and ratification of the US Constitution, and are considered to be a writing of significant cultural, historical and political value today. If you want to learn more about your rights as an American citizen and the limitations of the US Central and Federal Government, as they were defined by the Founding Fathers themselves, reading this remarkable piece of political literature is an absolute must.

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Ratings and reviews

The title suggests that this book is the Federalist Papers This is basically a condensed version of the FP. Let's face it, many of the papers have some tangents that aren't terribly relevant. This book excerpts relevant sentences and paragraphs for you so that you can quickly read it and follow the argument in each paper. Plus it's indexed which is nice. Basically just think of this book as a time saver. I would read it instead of the full FP when I was pressed for time before class and never had trouble following the class discussion. It's obviously not going to replace the FP completely.

I love this amazing e book. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those, who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right, in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection, that we are not always sure, that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives, not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as upon those who oppose the right side of a question.

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