Hamilton's essay (Federalist papers) number 23

This essay would explains'' Hamilton''s need to write Federalist paper 23 and would later give an analysis through through Argument and Counter Argument. The Federalist is the collective title for 85 essays signed "Publius" and published (1787-88) in various New York newspapers to convince New York voters to support ratification of the new Constitution of the United States. Sometimes called the Federalist Papers, they were published in book form in 1788. Although the authorship of certain essays is still disputed, the consensus is that Alexander Hamilton wrote 52, James Madison 28, and John Jay 5.

The first 14 are a general discussion of the importance of union to the "political prosperity" of America. Essays 15-22 contain arguments to show the inadequacy of confederations and of the Articles of Confederation, and in 23-36 evidence is presented to show the need for a government "at least equally energetic" as that provided by the Constitution. Numbers 37-51 contain explanations of the republican principles underlying the document, and 52-66 are an analysis of the legislative power and the regulation of elections. The remainder, written by Hamilton, contain the analysis of the executive (67-77) and judicial branches (78-83) and of the question of a bill of rights.

The essays succeeded, for New York as well as other states were swayed to vote for ratification. They endured, moreover, as the classic analysis of the Constitution and an influential treatise on federalism.

In 1787, there was a controversy over whether there should be a ratification of the constitution or not. Many peoples opinion varied on the subject. The Federalists believed that the Articles of Confederation were a failure and that we needed to rewrite the constitution. The Anti-Federalists had a different opinion; they believed that we shouldn't ratify the constitution.

Shortly after the states sent the constitution to be ratified in late September 1787, an article was published in a New York paper. The article was an anti-federalist article written by an author who went under the pen name Cato. Cato was suspected to be George Clinton who served as vice president under James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. This was the first articled published trying to convince the people of the United States that there was no need to ratify the constitution. This began a long feud between federalist and anti-federalist. Another anti-federalist article was published October 18th 1787 by an author going under a different pen name of Brutus. Brutus was believed to be Robert Yates who was a well known anti-federalist. The name Brutus came from Marcus Junius Brutus who helped in the assassination of Julius Caesar. These articles had had one purpose, to convince the citizens that there was no need to ratify our constitution.

In response to these articles Alexander Hamilton wrote the essay Federalist #1. The essay was published in The Independent Journal under the pen name Publius. Publius is short for Publius Valerious Puplicola, which means friend of the people in roman. The pen name was good for the ...