Welcome to The Federalist Phoenix

After the U.S. Constitution was drafted in June 1787, it was sent to the "several states" for ratification (acceptance and approval) by special conventions organized expressly for that purpose. Immediately thereafter, some supporters of the new Constitution, known as federalists, began writing persuasive articles to convince people of its superiority over the existing government organized under the Articles of Confederation. Many of the framers of the constitution were federalists, someone who strongly supported the establishment of a powerful central government. And that is precisely what the Constitution was written to do.

These articles were published primarily in newspapers in the state of New York where convention delegates were wary of the new constitution and its centralized power over the sovereignty of the states. History may not fully reveal the efficacy of these 85 articles, now collectively called the Federalist Papers, but reading them in the historical context in which they were written suggests they were. These articles did not expose the Constitution for what it was, they exposed it for what the authors wanted readers to believe it was.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were the authors of the Federalist Papers, which they all wrote under the common pseudonym of Publius. The Federalist Phoenix is my humble attempt to raise awareness from the ashes of our Constitution about how it has been misused by elite, white men to deny large portions of our country’s citizens the rights it supposedly embodies.

Publius II