The Federalist Papers discusses the editorials and persuasion pieces written by the Founding Fathers to create the democracy of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches that guide the lives of Americans today. ... Hamilton states his view on the judicial branch of government in article eighty of The Federalist Papers. ... Today, courts can exercise those powers stated by Hamilton in article eighty of The Federalist Papers. Though The Federalist Papers did not motivate people to adopt the Constitution, it supplied them with the most authoritative interpretation of the Constitut...

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The Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated this new plan of action for months. The Federalists were supporters of the Constitution. ... John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays and published them as The Federalist Papers. ... The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution; they feared that a strong central government would be used as an instrument of tyranny. ... They saw the Federalists as people who would oppress lower class people. ...

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Madison, later a congressman, drafted a bill of rights, drawing heavily upon the Virginia Declaration of Rights that was the work primarily of anti-federalist George Mason. ... The Act was enforced against Republican papers in an effort to keep Jefferson's party from defeating the federalists in the 1800 election. ...

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