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The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
About this book
The eighty-five Federalist essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison as 'Publius' to support the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–88 are regarded as the preeminent American contribution to Western political theory. Recently, there have been major developments in scholarship on the Revolutionary and Founding era as well as increased public interest in constitutional matters that make this a propitious moment to reflect on the contributions and complexity of The Federalist. This volume of specially commissioned essays covers the broad scope of 'Publius' work, including historical, political, philosophical, juridical, and moral dimensions. In so doing, they bring the design and arguments of the text into focus for twenty-first century scholars, students, and citizens and show how these diverse treatments of The Federalist are associated with an array of substantive political and constitutional perspectives in our own time.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Publius and the Anti-Federalists: ''A Satisfactory Answer to all the Objections''?
- 2 John Jay, The Federalist, and the Constitution
- 3 ''A Vigorous National Government'': Hamilton on Security, War, and Revenue
- 4 ''The Known Opinion of the Impartial World'': Foreign Relations and the Law of Nations in The Federalist
- 5 The Federalist's New Federalism
- 6 The Political Psychology of Publius: Reason, Passion, and Interest in The Federalist
- 7 Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, and the Philosophical Perspective of The Federalist
- 8 Madison's Republican Remedy: The Tenth Federalist and the Creation of an Impartial Republic
- 9 The Republicanism of Publius: The American Way of Life
- 10 ''The Interest of the Man'': James Madison's Constitutional Politics
- 11 Politics Indoors and Out-of-Doors: A Fault Line in Madison's Thinking
- 12 ''The Cool and Deliberate Sense of the Community'': The Federalist on Congress
- 13 Publius on Monarchy
- 14 The Genius of Hamilton and the Birth of the Modern Theory of the Judiciary
- 15 Publius's Political Science
- 16 The Republican Form of Government in The Federalist
- Index