What is Federalist 10?

Civics 101

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Federalist 10 was one of the Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 essays that were published in New York to encourage ratification of the newly drafted Constitution. This essay is taught in classrooms across the country and often referred to as the most important. So what's it about? Taking us through the ideas of faction, republicanism, and Madison's inability to predict Facebook are Jeffrey Rosen, President of the National Constitution Center, Alison LaCroix, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and our dear friend Ryan Werenka, AP Government and Politics teacher at Troy High School in Michigan. Click here to listen to our episode on the Federalist and Antifederalist Papers. And click here to support our show and get yourself some wool socks and a hat! CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I just wanted to tell you I was talking to my sister and she asked you know hey what
0:05.2	episode are you working on I was like I'm kind of working on this one about Federalist
0:08.8	10 you know you know what that is and she was like I imagine it continues the thoughts espoused in Federalist Nine.
0:17.0	I mean that's not the worst guess everyone in New York was like man I thought nine was going to be the last one how many more of these they're going to do
0:29.0	76
0:31.7	You're listening to Civics 101. I'm N capa Dije. I'm Hannah McCarthy. And today, yes, we are talking
0:37.4	about Federalist 10. The essay that is considered by many, all to be the most significant of the
0:45.6	Federalist Papers. Okay so we've done an episode on the Federalist Papers and
0:50.1	the Anti Federalist Papers there's a link in the show notes for anyone who's curious.
0:55.3	Can we just do a super quick summary of what these are?
0:58.9	Absolutely.
1:01.1	The Federalist papers were written to defend the ratification of the Constitution.
1:06.0	The Constitution is proposed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, and then it comes time
1:12.0	for the people to decide whether or not to ratify it.
1:15.0	They were essays, newspaper pieces written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay,
1:20.2	and their purpose was to convince New York electors, New York delegates and sort of the New York
1:25.8	reading public more broadly, to vote for pro-constitution delegates to the New York ratification
1:32.4	convention. I'm Jeffrey Rosen and I'm the president. Delegates to the New York Ratification Convention.
1:33.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen and I'm the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
1:37.5	I'm Allison LaCroy and I'm a professor of law at the University of Chicago.
1:41.5	The Constitution was proposed.
1:44.4	It required nine of the 13 states to ratify it for it to become the law of the land, and New York.
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