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The Ratification Debate
Essays and letters printed in newspapers while the states debated the Constitution, for it and against it, from collections edited by Paul Leicester Ford and by John Bach McMaster and Frederick D. Stone.
Anti-Federalist writers
The Letters of Cato
George Clinton
7 essays1787–1788The Letters of Centinel
Samuel Bryan (attributed)
24 essays1787–1788Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican
Richard Henry Lee
5 essays1787Caution
Samuel Chase
3 min readOctober 12, 1787The Letters of Brutus
Brutus (Thomas Treadwell?)
4 essaysOctober–November 1787The Letters of Agrippa
James Winthrop (attributed)
18 essays1787–1788Replies to a Landholder
Elbridge Gerry
2 essaysJanuary–April 1788The Letters of Luther Martin
Luther Martin
6 essaysJanuary–April 1788A Plain Dealer
Spencer Roane (attributed)
6 min readFebruary 13, 1788The Letters of Sydney
Robert Yates
2 essays1788Brutus Not yet
Sixteen essays in the New-York Journal, 1787–1788
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Federalist writers
The Federalist
Hamilton, Madison and Jay as “Publius”
85 papers1787–1788The Letters of Cassius
James Sullivan
11 essaysSeptember–December 1787The Letters of Caesar
Alexander Hamilton
2 essays1787A Friend to the Constitution
Daniel Carroll
5 min readOctober 16, 1787The Letters of a Landholder
Oliver Ellsworth
14 essays1787–1788The Letters of a Countryman
Roger Sherman
5 essaysNovember–December 1787Remarks on the New Plan of Government
Hugh Williamson
16 min read1788Cursory Remarks
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
4 min readApril 1788A Steady and Open Republican
Charles Pinckney
3 min readMay 5, 1788The Letters of a Citizen of New Haven
Roger Sherman
2 essays1788
Other letters
Which side a writer took is Res Publica's grouping, not the editors'. Authors are as the editions give them; several attributions are disputed by later scholars. About these texts