The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Understanding the Constitution; Suggestions for Further Reading; Notes on the Authors and Texts; The Anti-Federalists; George Mason, Objections to the Constitution of Government Formed by the Convention, November 1787; Address of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention, December 18,1787; Speech of Patrick Henry before the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788; Speeches of Melancton Smith before the New York Ratifying Convention, June 20, 21, 23, 1788; Letters of Cato (4 and 5), November 8 and 22, 1787. Letters of Centinel (1), October 5, 1787Essays of Brutus (6, 11, 12, 15), December 27, 1787; The Constitution Defended; Speech of James Wilson before the Pennsylvania Convention, November 24, 1787; A Citizen of America [Noah Webster], An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 17, 1787; The Federalist; No. 1: Introduction, October 27, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 2: Concerning the Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence, October 31, 1787 [Jay]; No. 6: Concerning the Dangers from War Between the States, November 14, 1787 [Hamilton]. No. 7: The Subject Continued and Particular Causes Enumerated, November 17, 1787 [Hamilton]No. 8: The Effects of Internal War in Producing Standing Armies and Other Institutions Unfriendly to Liberty, November 20, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 9: The Utility of the Union as a Safegaurd against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, November 21, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 10: The Same Subject Continued, November 22, 1787 [Madison]; No. 12: The Utility of the Union in Respect to Revenue, November 27, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 14: An Objection Drawn from the Extent of Country Answered, November 30, 1787 [Madison]. No. 15: Concerning the Defects of the Present Confederation in Relation to the Principle of Legistlation for the States in Their Collective Capacities, December 1, 1787 [Hamilton]No. 16: The Same Subject Continued in Relation to the Same Principle, December 4, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 23: The Necessity of a Government at Least Equally Energetic with the One Proposed, December 18, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 24: The Subject Continued with an Answer to an Objection Concerning Standing Armies, December 19, 1787 [Hamilton]; No. 28: The Same Subject Concluded, December 26, 1787 [Hamilton]. No. 31: [Concerning Taxation]: The Same Subject Continued, January 2, 1788 [Hamilton]No. 33: The Same Subject Continued, January 2, 1788 [Hamilton]; No. 35: The Same Subject Continued, January 5, 1788 [Hamilton]; No. 37: Concerning the Difficulties Which the Convention Must Have Experienced in the Formation of a Proper Plan, January 11, 1788 [Madison]; No. 39: The Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles: An Objection in Respect to the Powers of the Convention Examined, January 16, 1788 [Madison]. No. 47: The Meaning of the Maxim, Which Requires a Separation of the Departments of Power, Examined and Ascertained, January 30, 1788 [Madison]