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Which three statesmen wrote the Federalist Papers?
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Map of Virginia from John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 1624.
The three statesmen who wrote the Federalist papers—a foundational series of essays in American political literature—were:
Published between 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonym "Publius," these 85 essays were written to persuade voters in New York to support the ratification of the Constitution of the United States.1