The Federalist Papers.

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anodes

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A thread in another forum lead me to search this info out (not too hard, really). Most of these links are searchable.

This link states a dispute of the actual authors, but attribute the authors of the Federalist Papers as John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton: http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fedpaper.html

This one’s pretty good: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm

Also pretty good: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/federalist/

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fedquery.html

Anyway, The Federalist Papers are a good read, even today. I swear the Founding Fathers (and their buds) were geniuses! I read 'um and it wern't no school project!
anodes.
 
Next I would suggest reading the anti-federalist papers. You'll get a better prespective on what Madison was trying to refute in the Federalist Papers. By reading the full debate, one can garner a lot of what our constitution was really intended... just a caution... Do not equate to much meaning from these to the meaning of the 2nd. They were written prior to the 2nd. The 2nd was in answer to some of the charges in the anti-federalist papers that could not be discounted by our founders. Mostly a fear of a standing army.



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but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
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If you want the BEST read (in my humble but totally correct opinion) from that period, search out Madison's Notes from the Constitutional Convention.

You'll be able to argue their original intent with the best of 'em after getting all the way through that one. My lawyer buddies (yes, there are a COUPLE of decent ones out there) can't stand up to me anymore on the Constitution. To tell the truth, that one book got me more motivated to do everything I can to right this ship we call America than anything before or since.

My wife gave me the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers for Father's Day two years ago. It just so happened that the edition I got of the Anti-Federalist Papers had Madison's Notes as the second half of the book. It was MUCH better than the first part, I can tell you.

The Constitution was a compromise, but you should see the miniscule differences that were compromised in its forming. It's not like they were debating over whether to form some sort of nanny state or plunge into total anarchy and arrived at the happy medium of a representative republic. Whenever I hear a politician justify his or her actions by stating that "the Constitution was a compromise" it makes me want to puke. That person is demonstrating to the entire nation that his or her level of understanding about the document is near zilch.

Get the book. Read the book. Get angry over how far we have removed ourselves from the ideals presented.

Then do something about it.
 
Bob: Could you post the titles, authors and publishers of the books you just mentioned? I'm a bit of a history scholar myself.
Thanks.
 
Zensho,

I'd do so gladly, under normal circumstances. But I am in the middle of a multi-stage move to Colorado from Virginia, and all of my books are already gone. The authors are various men for the Federalist and Anti-federalist Papers. Madison's Notes were taken by James Madison. It shouldn't be that hard to track down. Both books that I got were soft cover, and by the same publisher. They had similar but slightly different covers on them, both paintings from the Colonial era.

I know that Barnes and Noble carries them, because that's where my wife got them for me. And I also know that both are still in print because I have seen them recently. Hope that helps.
 
If you do a search for ISBN:0393304051


Book is titled "Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James "


I haven't read it, but got it per recomendation above. I ordered from http://www.bn.com (Barnes & Noble)
 
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