The Federalist papers were originally essays titled The Federalists –later called federalist papers. They were 85 essays submitted to the New york newspapers from 1787-1788 to encourage people to ratify the new constitution. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison sent in the anonymous papers. The papers were submitted under the Roman name of pseudonym Publius and labeled Federalist No.... Hamilton had wrote about half of them and Madison and Jay each wrote about a third of them each. Although each of them had made big contributions to help people better understand what was going on.
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10 and No. 51 are two important ones that contributed and explained a lot, both were written by Madison. Federalist no. 10 is talking about factions which are a group of people that are united by their common interests and opinions. In his essay he talks about how fractions are impossible to avoid so you need to deal with them. To deal with them you need a large republic so it is more difficult for one group to some to power. Federalist No. 51 is talking about separation of powers between the branches in the government. He says that there needs to be separation between the branches and they can not control another branch just allowed to check in on them. He also talks about in his essay why judges receive lifetime terms. He says they have them so they don’t need to try to please anyone by with their decisions to be re-elected. They can just be there to follow the