Summary Of The Federalist Paper

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The Federalist Papers were written to elucidate the U.S. Constitution, and what the Constitution would do for America. The 39th paper was authored by James Madison, and he wrote it to clarify that the government included national and federal characteristics. Madison reasoned that the Constitution mentioned that “each state, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act.” Therefore, the government would not entirely be run by the central government like many perceived it would. Madison begins his paper with the definition he clarified of a republican government and then bring out the question that several people had pondered, which was if the Constitution