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Article: Blueprints for the Constitution.("The Federalist Papers") (includes related article on federalists on the Web)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- December 14, 1998
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The Founding Fathers laid out the basic principles of the American republic in the Federalist papers, and included an explanation of impeachment and grounds meriting it,
Easily the most impressive work in political science ever written in this country, the documents of The Federalist Papers are an authentic American classic. Consider: For two centuries, the Supreme Court has used them to settle questions about the Constitution, historians have read them to understand what America's Founding Fathers were up to during the initial years of the Republic and countless others have found in them a seemingly bottomless source of political wisdom and inspiration.
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