Federalist No. 20

Federalist No. 20 is an essay by James Madison, the twentieth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 11, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 20 addresses the failures of the Articles of Confederation to satisfactorily govern the United States; it is the last of six essays on this topic. It is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confe... more

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James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution," he was the principal...
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