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Article: PUBLIC FORUM : DEBATE ILLUSTRATES VALUE OF `FEDERALIST PAPERS'.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1997
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The Daily News recently ran a column concerning the new state requirement that California high schools must assign the ``Federalist Papers'' as required reading (`` `Federalist Papers' to show pupils errors of their ways'' by Gary Galles, Opinions, Jan. 17).
The author brought forth the perspective that students who read the ``Federalist Papers'' will quickly realize that the federal government has usurped ``authority'' in many areas for which it has no constitutional foundation. The author promulgates the theory that Alexander Hamilton and James Madison abhored a powerful central government.
Shortly after the column appeared, a letter was printed in ...