PUBLIUS

Author of The Federalist Papers.

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PUBLIUS is the pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay who together published 85 essays known as The Federalist Papers. These writings lobbied for the adoption of the United States Constitution and appeared annonymously in New York papers between 1787 to 1788.


"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."   -James Madison, The Federalist Papers