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United States Constitution
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time.
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The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution, which was drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. In lobbying for adoption of the Constitution over the existing Articles of Confederation, the essays explain particular provisions of the Constitution in detail. For this reason, and because Hamilton and Madison were each members of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers are often used today to help interpret the intentions of those drafting the Constitution.

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Our Federal Depository Library materials are available in paper, microprint, microfiche, CD-ROM, and online. We have a dedicated Computer Work Station next to the Reference Desk in the Central Reading Room, which is reserved to provide public access to materials from the FDLP, Federal Depository Library Program.

Many Federal documents are not cataloged by the Library of Congress system but by the SuDoc, Superintendent of Documents system, and many of them cannot be found in STARS.

For Federal documents not found in STARS and published since 1976, you may check the Government Documents Catalog Services database for our holdings. For pre-1976 documents, consult the paper Monthly Catalog in the Central Reading Room, Encyclopedias & Indexes - Z1223.A18. You will also find many documents listed in the new Catalog of Government Publications (CGP).

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