Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville: “But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments." (Federalist, No.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “… your quitting [it was] altogether the effect of your own [choic]e.”14 To combat vocal foes of the Constitution in New York, Hamilton published in late October the first essay of The Federalist under the pen name “Publius” and rushed a copy to Washington.”
Educated by Tara Westover: “I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.”
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: “He and James Madison were the prime movers behind the summoning of the Constitutional Convention and the chief authors of that classic gloss on the national charter, The Federalist, which Hamilton supervised.”