Alexander Hamilton and James Madison(Portraits by John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn/Wikimedia)
I've been reading and re-reading many texts from the early years of America, and I’ve found my way back to The Federalist Papers. By the end of this summer, I’m hoping that my second-hand paperback copy of Madison and Hamilton’s eighty-five essays will be thoroughly annotated and loved.
Federalist No. 1 reminds us how America was originally an experiment:
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence
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