So thirty-six-year-old James Madison believed. That summer, the Virginian was instrumental in organizing the Constitutional Convention, in which one of the world’s greatest documents would be debated, created, and signed.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This edition includes all 85 articles, most of which were originally published in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between 1787 and 1788.

The John Harvard Library edition of the classic American essay with an introduction by Cass Sunstein.