who had left the Convention in
disgust, believed that the COnstitution must be ratified even if it did include some ideas that he
disagreed with. In fact, Hamilton, Madison and another Nationalist from New York, John Jay,
wrote a series of eightyfive essays called
The Federalist
. The papers explained the need for the
Constitution and how the federal government would work. They called for “a republican
empire,” not referring to a political party but a government by the people (Cayton 144).
Since the country was rather large…
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