The Federalist essays, numbers 10, 39, and 51 were a predominant part of the Constitution in that the essays were used to persuade the people of New York into ratifying the constitution. The intent of the papers were to insure that powerful factions would not rise up and dominate weaker ones, to determine if the framers had developed a republican government, and to advocate separation of powers.
The essays were created as articles designed to go in the newspapers for the people of New York; the papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, were originally published under the name of “Publius.” The articles had focused on the botheration that the people were facing at the time, urging them to ratify the constitution since it would help fix all the issues in the past constitution: The Articles of Confederation. These articles had discussed these problems but were not done so in depth. States still only had one vote in congress, regardless of how big or small the states were and congress did not have the power to tax or regulate trade. Furthermore, there was no branch of government to enforce any new laws
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Madison also states that, “there are only two ways to control a faction, to remove it’s causes and to control its effects.” This idea however is impossible for the constitution guaranteed people their freedom and it is impossible to give everyone the same opinions, wants and interests. Madison describes a new republican form of government. He states a new form of government where people are represented by someone who is supposed to have the interests of the people in mind. It became clear that people at the time that the government was not protecting their individual rights by the rules of