TY - BOOK ID - 72829146 TI - One united people PY - 1990 SN - 0813116783 9780813161372 0813161371 9780813116785 PB - Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - United States KW - History KW - Political science KW - History. KW - Federalist. KW - Federalist papers KW - Federalist, or, The new Constitution UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72829146 AB - The Federalist and the Constitution, whose cause it defended, were created amid the turmoil of political controversy. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, authors of The Federalist, were not theorists but fervent partisans in a campaign to gain acceptance -- by no means a sure thing at that time -- for the new plan of national government which they themselves had largely shaped. Their essays were immediately popular, were quickly collected and reissued in book form, and soon came to be recognized in America and Europe as a landmark in political theory -- the basic blueprint for th ER -