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This list credited Hamilton with a full 63 of the essays (three of those being jointly written with Madison), almost three-quarters of the whole, and was used as the basis for an 1810 printing that was the first to make specific attribution for the essays. [28] Madison did not immediately dispute Hamilton's list, but provided his own list for ...
Federalist No. 51 addresses the separation of powers, the federal structure of government and the maintenance of checks and balances by "opposite and rival interests" within the national government. One of Federalist No. 51's most important ideas, an explanation of checks and balances, is the often-quoted phrase, "Ambition must be made to ...
Hamilton recruited John Jay and James Madison to write The Federalist Papers, a series of essays, to defend the proposed Constitution. He made the largest contribution to that effort, writing 51 of the 85 essays published. Hamilton supervised the entire project, enlisted the participants, wrote the majority of the essays, and oversaw the ...
The magazine's critical summary reads: "The author's elaboration on the minutiae of Hamilton's life pushes the book to an exhausting length, and some critics, particularly Randall (author of the recent Alexander Hamilton: A Life) questioned the speculative, novelistic nature of the book. But Chernow's considerable skills as a storyteller will ...
A search of Hamilton’s writings turned up no such quote, though, and experts who have written and edited texts about the first treasury secretary said he did not write it.
Since then, the essays they wrote have largely fallen into obscurity. [9] The influence of their writing, however, can be seen to this day – particularly in the nature and shape of the United States Bill of Rights. Federalists, such as Alexander Hamilton, vigorously argued against its passage but were in the end forced to compromise.
The passage, "For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best," is a paraphrase of Alexander Pope's An Essay On Man (Chapter 4, Epistle 3, section VI), which Hamilton uses to talk about the presidential election process as a model for producing good administration. In Pope, "That which" is replaced by "Whatever".
Federalist No. 52, an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton [fn 1], is the fifty-second essay out of eighty-five making up The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written during the Constitution's ratification process, most of them written either by Hamilton or Madison.