One United People: The Federalist Papers and the National Idea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160337)

The Federalist and the Constitution, whose cause it defended, were created amid the turmoil of political controversy. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, authors of The Federalist, were not theorists but fervent partisans in a campaign to gain acceptance-by no means a sure thing at that time-for the new plan of national government which they themselves had largely shaped. Their essays were immediately popular, were quickly collected and reissued in book form, and soon came to be rec

Author: Edward Millican
ISBN-10: 0813160332
ISBN-13: 9780813160337
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d