The Federalist, On the New Constitution; Written in 1788, By Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison - A New Edition

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Hardcover, 504 pages. Bound in full leather. Spine has been reinforced with black bookcloth, with a square cut out of it to show the original title label. Binding is good and tight, but unattractive because of the bookcloth over the leather spine. Pages are square and clean. Some mild and inoffensive foxing, mostly in the margins. There should be engraved portraits of the three authors, but this copy has none of them. Bookplate on the inside front cover on light blue paper. Emblem of crossed antlers and a barrel with fire inside it over a twined rope. The name Augustus Fleming. On the free endpaper, the name Alexander Fleming is signed. On the title page, the name A.A. Fleming 1848 is written. (there was an Alexander Fleming at the City College of NY who earned an AB in 1809. An Augustus Fleming earned an AB there in 1803.) Contains the 85 original articles of the Federalist. Also an appendix with the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the 12 amendments that had been passed by 1818. The Federalist Papers were originally published in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788. In their earliest form, they were attributed only to Publius. They were published in book form in 1788, but without any effort at determining authorship of the several essays. It was published in France in 1792, in an edition that listed all three authors, as though each essay had been a collaboration. The New York edition of 1810 listed the three authors, but like the Paris edition, made no attempt to distinguish among them. It was not until 1810, using a list compiled by Alexander Hamilton, that an edition was published that credited each essay to its writer. Then in 1818, using a list compiled by Madison, another edition was published. The two men differed in their recollections, so several of the essays seem to switch authors between 1810 and 1818. The conflicting attributions have led to a century-long debate over the authorship of a dozen or so of the articles. This edition of 1818 is the 8th edition of the Federalist Papers, and uses Madison s list of attributions. The Federalist Papers are undoubtedly the most important commentary on the Constitution ever written. Even two centuries later, it is as the center of contemporary judicial debate over the intentions of the Founding Fathers and the reach of Constitutional authority. N° de ref. del artículo Fred-Z297

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