The Founding Record

The Founding Record

• Federalist No. 43

  Why treason is the one crime the Constitution defines itself.

• Federalist No. 45

  Few and defined. The sentence the Tenth Amendment turned into text.

• Federalist No. 46

  The armed-population argument, in the words of the man who drafted the Second Amendment.

• Federalist No. 51

  The design assumes ambition rather than virtue.

• Federalist No. 69

  Commander-in-chief compared clause by clause with a king.

• Federalist No. 70

  Unity in the executive, defended as accountability rather than power.

• Federalist No. 78

  Neither force nor will, but merely judgment.

• Federalist No. 84

  The argument against a Bill of Rights, made by the man who lost it.

• Brutus No. 1

  The case against ratification, made first and made best.