I'm not actually going to do a joke though.

Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about classical stuff that you should know.

My name is Thomas Magby.

I am joined as always by Mr.

AJ Hanenberg. That's me. And Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello. And today we are talking about the Federalist papers. Just one of them. Every single one of them. Oh gosh. If you don't cover them all, I will be furious. There's just one. I think there's like 50. I was going to ask. How many are there?

There's a lot.

And so these were written by James Madison, Alexander. I will be furious. There's just one. I think there's like 50. I was going to ask. How many are there? There's a lot.

And so these were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the other guy that no one remembers. Or at least I never remember. Clay, I think his last name is. I can't remember. Will you be singing all of these? I will not be singing all of it. One, I've never seen Hamilton. And because I've never seen it, I also don't like it.

Oh, cool.

You're following a pattern.

Yes, I don't like it

You're following a pattern I respect I don't want to I don't want to I don't want to pretend that I like it

I don't know it gives me weird vibes I just don't like you just listen to it it's great

It's fun I don't know it's terrible I hate it what do you want me to say I don't

Oh hip history yeah that's cool why not I't know. I'm just not into it.

Hey, fun things can be fun, Graham. You can enjoy things. Anyway, before when I understood, like, Hamilton and Madison and the other guy wrote all these Federalist papers, but Madison wrote, like, the vast majority of them. And so it kind of feels like a group project. One person's one person gets all the credit.

It does all the work and they all get the credit for it.

But anyway, we're going to be talking about federalist number 10. And AJ was, so the question was like, okay, what, we've heard that we hear the federalist papers. We know that they are part of American history. Like, what are they? And they were, think of it as they were kind of like op-eds or they were essays that were

written and to be distributed in periodicals and whatnot in defense of passing the Constitution.

So they were debating. So this is Federalist number 10 is 1787. So they were in defense of,

hey, we should pass the Constitution that is floating around.

Because before then, you had the Articles of Confederation, and there were sort of these two visions for how these states should move forward.

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