Mr. Meyerson is the author of Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World (Basic Books, 2008). The ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

So wrote the editor of the first authoritative edition of The Federalist papers, published in 1961 by the Wesleyan University Press, adding they were “the most significant contribution Americans have ...

which is best captured in Alexander Hamilton's statement that "the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration." This essay places this definition into ...