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Definition:
The Federalist Papers were a series of newspaper essays written anonymously by
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. They wrote these pieces in an effort
to explain how and why the Constitution was good in the hopes of helping it get
ratified. Today, the Federalist Papers are an important source of information about
what the authors of the Constitution believed it to mean and what they wanted to
accomplish.
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