While the devs of the Constitution were working on the balance changes for patch 1.786, the authors of the Federalist Papers were working on writing out the patch notes. It was a Goldilocks situation, with the British Empire in the role of Papa Bear's oatmeal, and the Articles of Confederation in the role of Mama Bear's oatmeal. People were understandably worried about tyrannical rule after fighting a war to overthrow one, but the government was weak to the point of being ineffectual. The Articles of Confederation had been a disaster, giving the federal government the power to make laws but not the power to enforce them, no power to hold a standing army, and a bunch of other serious weaknesses. The nation was brand new, something that its founders viewed as an experimental form of government, and a lot of them strongly disagreed on how it should even look.
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS SERIES
(Give this a listen for a quick run-down.)īasically, the Federalist Papers were a series of commercials for the United States, coming to an America near you.
To get the support the Constitution needed, Alexander Hamilton rounded up James Madison and John Jay-together three of the MVPs in statecraft-to write a series of newspaper essays in support of the Constitution. The various delegates to the Constitutional Convention had to create a document-and a government by proxy-that would have support from at least nine of the thirteen states in order to come into law. That government wasn't going so hot though, so the Constitutional Convention was held in 1786 to toss the old one out the window and start from scratch. (that's Original Government) was prescribed by the Articles of Confederation. But-and this is a big but and we cannot lie-the Constitutional Government was not the first government of the United States. Nevertheless, the Constitution has proven a stable and flexible foundation for our current government, only really requiring tweaks and edits to persist in the present. Maybe Aunt May and Uncle Ben didn't actually exist when the Founding Fathers were doing their Founding Father thing…although we think people like James Madison would have given the thumbs up to the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility.") Things like the three-branch structure, the House of Representatives, the Senate, Aunt May, and Uncle Ben have become timeless facets of our system of Government. The United States Government, much like the endlessly-rebooting Spider Man franchise, has journeyed through the years with certain fixed features that we've come to expect as iconic and unchangeable. The Federalist Papers 10 and 51 Introduction
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