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Table Annexed To Article: Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Word counts for each of the eighty-five articles published by Publius, the (collective) pseudonym of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, are surveyed. The 189,497 words are also broken down by author. The effort is ancillary to a project fixing the semantic values of ‘constitution’, ‘federal’ and ‘republic’ throughout the Early Republic (=1787 through 1857).

Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Word counts for each of the eighty-five articles published by Publius, the (collective) pseudonym of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, are surveyed. The 189,497 words are also broken down by author. The effort is ancillary to a project fixing the semantic values of ‘constitution’, ‘federal’ and ‘republic’ throughout the Early Republic (=1787 through 1857).

Machine-Readable Text Of The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Machine-readable text of the eighty-five Federalist Papers is provided

The Puzzle Of Hamilton's Federalist No. 77, Seth Barrett Tillman

Seth Barrett Tillman

The Founders, the authors of the Constitution of 1787, much like you and me, were flesh-and-blood human beings. As a result, we expect to find errors and exaggeration in their written works. There is nothing new about that insight. But one alleged error has always struck me as somewhat different from other alleged errors. I am speaking of Hamilton’s 1788 publication: The Federalist No. 77. There he wrote:

IT HAS BEEN MENTIONED as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation of the Senate, in the business of appointments, that it would contribute to the stability of the …

Publius For All Of Us, Brannon P. Denning

Brannon P. Denning

This reviews Dan Coenen's "The Story of the Federalist: How Hamilton and Madison Reconceived America," an outstanding introduction to The Federalist Papers and its political theory.