Federalist No. 1 (1787) is Alexander Hamilton's opening essay for The Federalist, written to introduce the series and to set out how the people of New York should approach the proposed Constitution. Hamilton frames ratification as a test of whether people can create good government through deliberate reflection rather than by accident or force, so that a wrong decision would matter well beyond America. He warns that local interests, ambition and heated partisan passion will cloud the debate, while conceding that many opponents act in good faith and urging moderation on everyone. He openly declares his own support for the Constitution, promises to argue for it in the open, and lists the topics the coming papers will cover, beginning with the value of the Union, since he sees the real choice as adopting the Constitution or letting the Union break apart.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757–1804) was an American statesman, a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Born in the West Indies, he served as George Washington's aide during the Revolutionary War and became the most forceful advocate of a strong national government. He planned The Federalist, recruited James Madison and John Jay to write it with him, and wrote fifty-one of its eighty-five essays, including those on the executive and the judiciary. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
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Federalist No. 1 (1787) is Alexander Hamilton's opening essay for The Federalist, written to introduce the series and to set out how the people of New York should approach the proposed Constitution. Hamilton frames ratification as a test of whether people can create good government through deliberate reflection rather than by accident or force, so that a wrong decision would matter well beyond America. He warns that local interests, ambition and heated partisan passion will cloud the debate, while conceding that many opponents act in good faith and urging moderation on everyone. He openly declares his own support for the Constitution, promises to argue for it in the open, and lists the topics the coming papers will cover, beginning with the value of the Union, since he sees the real choice as adopting the Constitution or letting the Union break apart.
Original summary for this showcase, informed by public sources including Wikipedia.
Read more: Federalist No. 1 on Wikipedia · Full text: Federalist No. 1 at Project Gutenberg