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This Day in Legal History: Federalist No. 1
On October 27, 1787, New York’s Independent Journal published an essay signed “Publius,” titled “General Introduction.” It was the first of what became 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, urging New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution, which had been signed in Philadelphia just six weeks earlier. Hamilton wrote this first one.
Hamilton framed ratification as a test, set out in today’s opening quote, of whether people could establish good government “from reflection and choice,” rather than by “accident and force.”…
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