A TALE OF TWO REBELLIONS
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was determined to convince his fellow New Yorkers to support the U.S. Constitution. Together with James Madison and John Jay, Hamilton wrote 85 essays that eventually were collected into The Federalist Papers. The essays were written in 1787 and 1788 to explain how the Constitution would work. The book has become a resource for interpreting the Constitution.
Hamilton wrote the majority of the papers,
