Talk:The Federalist Papers

Table of Contents
There is a large table in the middle of this article: in the external links section there are two links to a similar table but also with links to each paper. I would suggest that this table takes up a lot of space, maybe should be made it's own article with each line formign a link to a stub. What do you think?--68.121.144.176 03:04, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

''The TOC for this was listed under VfD. I moved it here in case anyone wants to do anything with it (such as link it to a series of articles) in the future.''

This is a listing of the Federalist Papers.


 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cecropia (talk • contribs) 02:53, 21 June 2004 (UTC)


 * The page is still there, at List of Federalist Papers — Preceding unsigned comment added by JW1805 (talk • contribs) 20:00, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

I think that it would be beneficial to have the table of contents available when anyone opens the page, so it should be placed on the left side for easy access. If the TOC is moved, the image of the inside cover which currently resides on the right side of the page should either stay in its place or be lowered if the text looks too cramped. Mattweiss (talk) 01:03, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Title
I move that since the TRUE title of the work is "The Federalist" and NOT "The Federalist Papers" the title of this article should be changed to "The Federalist" with searches for "(The) Federalist Papers" redirected to it. "The Federalist Papers" is a later title: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay very specifically wanted the work to be called "The Federalist" because a federalist was the type of man whose virtues they wanted to promote, a man like Publius--The title "The Federalist" refers to a type of PERSON, not a collection of papers. Calling them "The Federalist Papers" very much changes the authors' intent. --70.30.91.76 (talk • contribs) 11:48, December 26, 2010‎ (UTC)

Change of title to The Federalist Papers
I agree with with the anom author of the section above entitled "Title" - the title of this page, if Wikipedia is to be historically correct, should be The Federalist papers (or  The Federalist Papers if capitalizing Papers makes it more familiar). The authors of the papers called the overall project The Federalist, indicating that they were articles being written by one man but actually going under a shared alias of three of America's Founding Fathers - Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. This change feels appropriate to me, and might to readers and historians, so I'm seconding anom's idea, above, in favor of a name change. If so, we can set off fireworks and sign this change with a virtual pen from the Syng inkstand (I really like that page and artifact!) Randy Kryn 21:08 19 September, 2014 (UTC)

Missing end number for "The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true principles of republican government"
It states 37 as the first of the essays covering this topic, but the end No. is missing. the next item lists 85, the final essay, it seems likely that the missing number is 84. looking for confirmation. RarinRictus (talk) 00:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Other authors in support
As we know, papers in opposition to the Constitution were written and published by many people. Did anyone other than Publius write in support of the Constitution? J S Ayer (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Fischer book about the Federalist Party
Hi Tonymetz. You probably know more about this than I do, so I'll pick your brain. I hope you don't mind. You obviously believe this book is important as a source for this article, at least as Further reading:



The book is listed in the Bibliography at the Federalist Party article, where it is obviously on-topic. What justifies it being listed here? The Federalist Party isn't mentioned a single time in this article. Shouldn't such content be developed first?

BTW, my most valuable source of knowledge about The Federalist Papers was gained while doing a lot of work at Wikisource. It's a pretty amazing work. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 15:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The book covers The Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Paper's primary author. The Party was a major if not primary means of influence for the ideas that Hamilton championed in this book .  For those and other reasons it seems to be relevant for "Further Reading" where it's found. Tonymetz  💬  18:17, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that explanation. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 20:53, 5 May 2024 (UTC)