The Federalist Papers Explained (AP US Government and Politics)

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In this video, Tom Richey introduces you to the Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in order to persuade the people of the state of New York to support the ratification of the Constitution. Antifederalist writers, such as Brutus, had claimed that the Constitution would be neither federal nor republican in nature. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay argued that the Constitution would preserve republican government and would preserve the federal system and the rights of the states.
This video will be helpful for students preparing for the AP United States Government and Politics exam. AP Gov students are expected to be familiar with Federalist 10, Federalist 51, Federalist 70, and Federalist 78.
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[@Harrison_801]

A better summation than I could've asked for in an entire class period

[@MarcoLearning]

Glad you liked it!

[@dsr3178]

More people need to catch up on the constitution nowadays

[@MarcoLearning]

Yes! Thanks for watching!

[@jamesoppy5957]

And learn just how distorted it has become

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Especially RepubliCON

[@Jordan-qq2ss]

​@@DJK-cq2uythose darn republicans. They just don't understand that the founding documents clearly meant that prepubescent children had full autonomy, and could decide for themselves that they were ready for gender affirming surgery and drugs. Clearly they hate freedom.

[@georgethebugeater7950]

@@Jordan-qq2ss😂👍👍

[@googleuser1937]

Alexander Hamilton be carrying the Federalist Party on his back.

[@MarcoLearning]

Yes, that should have played a larger role in the musical.

[@region-_-1721]

@Joseph Ferro your cringe bruh

[@FunkSoulBubby]

Burr almost got him.

[@owlnyc666]

Would he be a contemporary Republican or Democrat? I think Democrat. Hamilton wanted a unitary government. He wanted the president and the senators to serve for life. He thought that the "model" government was Great with the Monarchy , the House Of Lords. He chose Republican form of government Modeled after the Roman Empire. NOT a Democracy modeled after Athens. Hamilton was a PLATIONIST. And Plato, Soccrates and Aristole and they did not trust the undereducated commoners to rule. It was the ignorant mob that convicted and sentenced Soccrates to commit suicide. And their was the mob of Shay's rebellion. Which struck fear and terror into the hearts of the wealhy-educated ELITE. 🤔😉😏

[@thomasblaz3846]

Yeah he was also the biggest s*** head moron to ever exist he is the one who made centralized Banking and its privately owned he took the same thing from what we were trying to get rid of and implemented it right here but the difference was he had the power

[@SSArcher11]

I must say I'm impressed by the objectivity of this presentation. I'm so accustomed to hidden agendas.

[@MarcoLearning]

Thank you!

[@NotesFromTheOwlBox]

Hidden agendas in historical KZbin presentations? What do you mean? Name one. Hidden agendas in modern media anaylsis? Yeah its called politics and Aaron Burr wrote the book.

[@advocacynaccountablity]

Ok....

[@edwardmabanglo2076]

what were u expecting? "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS ARE A SOCIALIST PLOY TO TURN YOUR CHILDREN INTO TRANSGENDERS"

[@raychevalier2741]

I heard my 11 year old talking to his sister about the federalist papers but did not interject before I brushed up on the subject. This gave me everything I needed to contribute to their conversation in a more constructive manner.

[@Jordan-qq2ss]

What was the conversation like between your kids?

[@nekoqueen5524]

Is his sister not your daughter as well? I'm confused by this wording

[@EnwardHiggins]

I​@@nekoqueen5524 it's his wife's daughter.

[@matthewgillespie2835]

Brilliant explanation. I've heard that the federalist papers are an essential reading if one is to understand thoroughly the structure of the constitution, and thus, the structure of the US government, and I wanted to find a nice explanation of the context within which the federalist papers were written. This video did just that! Mr. Richey is a wonderful instructor! I will definitely have to look at more of his instructions.

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks!

[@lemonaid8678]

Sadly some people have no idea that they even exist

[@ryanluna7322]

to much freedom of each state, leads to potential division, too much division = civil unrest, and guess a dictator ship would be bad if your one of the few who fall outside the lines of what they want, but like a military or any social group, without some level of direction and control people fall apart, and to much delegation leads to everything going slow or stagnating or people fighting and no one gets anywhere, feel the constitution is more than enough rules, if you add in the religions and common outlook of the day, mean stuff they left out of the constitution to them woulda been seen as common sense even under the old rule, and they were christian, so allot of that to them wouldnt need to have been said, but would still have been part of the original outlook, stuff such as murder/ or adultry ect ect, they didnt need to add but there was a time when all of it was punished, feel if it wasnt for the unwritten rules of the time and they added everything they thought or we try to interpret what they meant, certain stuff would be added, mean they say right to bear dosnt mean private guns? but then its like you know they didnt really like same sex couples back then eather right?but common outlook back then made it not something your need to say. so if we go by anything other than the literal meaning of what they said, and go by what they may have meant theres allot of stuff that should be banned way before firearms

[@stevewise1656]

@@ryanluna7322"they were Christians." That's not true by any stretch. Most were agnostic, atheist, or didn't believe God had anything to do with what was happening on earth from day to day. This is why our government was constructed to be separate from church and state/government. Your thesis seems to be they believed stating anything about Christianity in the Constitution or not writing anything in the Constitution was a given at the time. How does that square with the separation of church and state? It doesn't. Facts don't have two sides.

[@Fadoua07]

I'm a Master 1 LMD Algerian student of English my specialty is : Literature and civilization and I want to say THANK you for the effort you put into ur videos it's really helpful and clear 🌹👌

[@MarcoLearning]

Thank you!

[@naomichadwick4223]

"John Jay got sick after writing 5. James Madison wrote 29. HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER 51!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[@lunarl1ly]

the hamilton musical tells this story so well so If you want to learn the history in detail (more surrounding hamilton and his experiences) all the while watching an amazing play, I highly reccomend it

[@chrismarchand3570]

This was tremendously informative. Thank you.

[@MarcoLearning]

Thank you for watching!

[@Sasha-wv3oy]

Politics usually makes me wanna fall asleep but you explained it so good that I really found myself actually listening 100%…thank you so much!

[@eggo601]

One of the clearest explanations I’ve ever listened to. I will be looking at more of your videos asap.

[@ArmchairRamb0]

This is a very good summary of several very important concepts. thanks

[@its_magic9516]

I´m a germa student who tried to understand the full thing about it, because i have a course about the 18. Century in USA and you explained it really well with a clear voice. It was a pleasure:)

[@thefreeman8791]

We can all read the Federalist Papers for ourselves and say here is what Hamilton says in #11 or something like that. But the bigger and more important question is what influence did they have on ratification itself? Did the delegates of the states read the Federalist papers and be like we agree to that and ratify the Constitution because they were convinced by the Federalist Papers? Mostly, the answer to that is no. Outside of NY, the Federalist Papers were not widely published and where they were they were mostly ignored by locals who tended to pay attention to their own leaders over an anonymously written letter. However, James Wilson gives a speech in November of 1787 and that is immediately published in major newspapers in 12 of the 13 states and it was distributed in booklet form to make it easier to spread. That was never done with the Federalist Papers. I am not saying that they are not important. I am just saying that people act like they had a profound influence on the ratification process as if a delegate in GA read an anonymous written letter published in a NY news paper and said yeah I am gonna vote for ratification because of this anonymous letter. That did not really happen. They had an incredibly amount of influence in NY but James Wilson's speech had much more influence outside of NY.

[@plouismarie]

As explained in the video the papers were aiming not only but mainly NY , so it worked. Also Thomas Jefferson himself hailed The Federalist Papers as the best commentary ever written about the principles of government. That’s a nice confirmation of the appreciation it has generated.

[@fijimorgan]

The anti-federalists would be saying I told you so if they saw our current government. Although, to be fair, our current government is doing their best to shred the constitution.

[@davidtrindle6473]

Complete nonsense

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

@@davidtrindle6473 nope

[@petepotaczek2534]

100% agree! Funny how pertinent those papers have become and how insightful.

[@barbaradonohue4822]

@@davidtrindle6473 Trump just truth socialed how he wanted it eliminated,

[@cannapurp2833]

@@barbaradonohue4822 And? He's an idiot which most Republicans no longer support. DeSantis please....

[@bernicejenkins1515]

Matt Damon is now a historian.

[@MarcoLearning]

Bruh

[@bernicejenkins1515]

@panda panda not a bruh

[@jpow333]

@@bernicejenkins1515 brah

[@bernicejenkins1515]

@@jpow333 ma’am did you need anything?

[@mickeywood3012]

Done while Jefferson was in France serving the American People.

[@msnrsn]

Great video. Thanks Tom!

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks!

[@ryanweaver962]

I think this is fantastic information. When we consider large shifts of concepts and needs… various processes and education are very needed.

[@markh.2899]

This is fabulous! Thank you, Macro Learning!

[@MarcoLearning]

Glad you liked it!

[@jeffjgarrett269]

You’re an excellent speaker. You should make a Great Course by The Teaching Company. Id love to watch that.

[@sjaoenvf]

Passing through. great lecture. thank you.

[@johnwinthrop2702]

you just came up with the greatest and most ifluental document in the history of the world and people aren't impressed.

[@russellniebolt1493]

This was a really good encapsulation! Thanks.

[@Rylee_DJ]

Incredible explanation! Thank you!

[@arnooww]

Thank you so much for the explanation. So, so, so useful.

[@ophidiaparaclete]

Speak One's Own Law. Speak One's self TRUTH. Speak Science Self sovereignty. Speak law self sovereignty. Speak freewill self sovereignty Speak freewill self sovereignty to self-govern. Why does the individual freewill sovereign to self-govern lose this inherent character and nature in lieu of a legal personality assigned by these who represent us? Preying not in our ignorance, NO these prey upon the public vulnerability to self-govern and childlike innocence of our sovereign SAFETY. Boo Hiss

[@melissajohnson5917]

Really interesting! Thank you👍🏻

[@MarcoLearning]

Glad you liked it!

[@jaredk6591]

Very informative video keep up the great work

[@MarcoLearning]

Thank you for watching!

[@jmalko9152]

Thanks for making this video!

[@MarcoLearning]

Glad you liked it!

[@johnnysalazar3951]

This man is brilliant!

[@williamsmith8041]

Thank you,I'm about to begin a college class on this subject

[@brittgayle467]

Excellent summary

[@ambrielclements5946]

Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks!

[@elle-be3lz]

Excellent explanation ... fascinating as well.

[@Cat-bg2ge]

The colonist's were rich. The Whitehouse was called " The American Palace" George Washington was like a King. He had every luxury including slave's.

[@That-Dude]

This was very well presented.

[@Iceman1800]

Thank you. Very good explanation

[@BraydenDarrell]

Very interesting! Thanks for the information

[@verballyconstipated]

Life so stagnant im listening to this even tho im not a us citizen and have never been to the us

[@mickeywood3012]

Young Adults, Federalists are what Jefferson warned Americans about. “He” (Jefferson) became suspicious of all around him, for he regarded the indifference of the people to the struggles of the French, their old allies, as an evil omen. He had scarcely taken his seat in the Cabinet before he declared that some of his colleagues held decidedly monarchical views; and the belief became fixed in his mind that there was a party in the United States continually at work, secretly and sometimes openly, for the overthrow of republicanism here. This idea became a sort of monomania and haunted him until his death more than thirty years afterward. From Benson Lossing, Our Country.

[@Loganvbills]

And now we are living it with the uniparty at odds against the people, at odds against the constitution, and especially doing everything they can to disarm the people and divide us in such a manor that we no longer vote on policy, rather, we vote on emotion controlled via media fear mongering. I'm still weary of Trump, myself, but I see in the people who support him that they want liberty back. They want the people to have control again and trust that Trump has the same goal. If it fails, I do believe there will be only one final option for our freedoms...

[@TeoOfficial_1]

Subbed and ty I needed this like water in a desert

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks for subscribing!

[@AndyRhodes1]

This was a helpful video.

[@イッゼィセブ]

For anyone interested, it's the Indigenous (native American) tribes that created what we consider our modern democracy today and our united States constitution. If you don't know what I'm talking about: Research Hiawatha's Wampum Belt and his ideas about bringing the 6 nations of the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse... The Iroquois Confederacy) who, together, created -what would be transplanted as- our 3 branches of government. They thought of it first. Benjamin Franklin, who spent lots of time with the Confederacy of the Iroquois, wrote about his experiences with them and their ideas about governing before the founders even started writing any democratic document.

[@TeoOfficial_1]

Humm sounds about right

[@Enceladus...]

Thank you for sharing. I've read this before in one of my books but have since forgotten 'til you reminded me.

[@Oora44]

Do the federalist papers have any context in constitutional law?

[@burrows10011]

fantastic explanation

[@msrhuby]

Shared on Facebook

[@skipfantry5059]

Can you lend your talents to the anti-federalist papers? It has as much insight into our constitution as the federalist papers do.

[@mickeywood3012]

Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia

[@davidpineda2345]

That's right, I'm here for the musical Hamilton

[@shahub5]

Great video thanks

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks for watching!

[@rayvandenberg4574]

good explanation of a subject all Americans should be more understanding of.., the greatness of the founders and what a great, the greatest, of country's America is.

[@robertleewhitt6241]

Outstanding presentation A+++

[@MarcoLearning]

Thanks for watching!

[@heatherdale5571]

Thank you.

[@bengordon6573]

Thank you!

[@Nenets15]

I just got my copy of the federalist papers Wish me luck

[@MarcoLearning]

Good luck with your new copy of the Federalist Papers!

[@YuriTarrdid]

you should have extended that victory sip at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="624">10:24</a>

[@ReverenXero]

Some time needs to be spent teaching people what expressed powers are.

[@MarcoLearning]

This is an important topic, for sure.

[@ritchie9030]

Well done.

[@jamesoppy5957]

MY HERO IS JAMES MADISON

[@johnnyreb8030]

You are an excellent speaker. Please stand and hold your hands behind you. Sholders back.

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Lol no, just let the dude be himself.

[@danegerzone4889]

Seems like Hamilton got what he wanted

[@MarcoLearning]

In many respects, he did! Thanks for watching!

[@danegerzone4889]

@@MarcoLearning Thanks for the highly informative video. This is a fascinating topic. I only wish I had teachers like you in school, but I'm lucky enough I can learn from you today!

[@jorden9821]

He did, unfortunately

[@michaelwoodsmccausland5633]

Ola! Nor did the Torrey’s leave!

[@charleskeefer3043]

Card catalog, then, mandate of the No. xxxx.

[@ElevatedMediaHouse]

The constitution is Probably both the most important AND most destructive to America We gave up our rights many times over since the founding, the forefathers would be throwing up right now, the population versus representatives is way off balance. Great Britain 2.0

[@Loganvbills]

It's wild how much worse things have gotten when globalists enter a government and give themselves powers they were never meant to have... it's been increasing since at least 100 years ago.

[@stephenfegely]

Great 👍🏻

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Was also focused on New York, which had a concentration of aristocrats

[@jillslack9013]

"Hi I'm Tom Richie I'm the exact midpoint between Matt Damon and Josh Brolin."

[@karenwaddell9396]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@MrDan11422]

The way I understand this, it basically means the federal government has more power than the state government. If I'm wrong let me know.

[@georgethebugeater7950]

It means that the state government and the federal government are separate, and state laws trump federal. So technically the federal government is more powerful as a whole, but state does not have to follow federal. This is from my understanding.

[@tttrfdsdhh2798]

*HaMiLToN wrOtE thE otHer 51*

[@andrewbesso4257]

Reading the Federalist Papers as an adult in the 21st century, I could feel the Civil War coming.

[@blackquiver]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="494">8:14</a>.. Soo I had it right to begin with . Than I got it backwards. The republic is the rights. Federalism is the constitution.. Holy crap am I confused. I gotta go bad think strict in the morning..

[@JonCardwell-m8p]

Yeah James Monroe Monroe doctrine things involving Britain in war time lol..

[@charleskeefer1143]

When did the aforementioned decide to choose a government to be the people, and the w.s. to ask about a.f.a.m. 1812 to combine without 2/3 Europe till the papers write to after the Dec. Ind. Yet the before has trust before hand.

[@leoaguilar5950]

What is to be said when federal laws impede or invade the freedom of choice. Where state or national popular opinion is controlled by media or news and votes are diluted and disputed... why should federal government have such power?

[@mockapp6973]

Excellent presentation! Now get some well deserved sleep

[@shawnburnham1]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="540">9:00</a>

[@SeedsAndStuff]

Words matter Steve

[@reneadinaro8183]

Wait a minute here. I'm no smart guy. However, I have a question. Who's paying these people to think and make laws. Where's the money coming from?

[@jamesstanley6879]

Just imagine the amount of tyranny that would exist today if those people didn’t fight for the bill or rights to long ago!

[@CaptainXiJinpooh]

50% surfer dude 50% cowboy

[@charleskeefer1143]

We

[@ViniHaxhiaj]

Belt way😂😂😂😂😂

[@givemethemusicd]

comment

[@andy_182]

Wonder what Ben Shapiro thinks

[@karenwaddell9396]

Who cares…

[@ViniHaxhiaj]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@babarca56]

Who else here for homework

[@MarcoLearning]

Everyone 👀

[@kromekicks]

Hamilton was a central bank plant.

[@jorden9821]

Where did it lead us to today? That's all you need to know. The Constitution is unfit to exist.

[@georgethebugeater7950]

I’m mean. You seem to be in good health. Have you fought any battles against a tyrannical government as of lately? That’s what I thought.

[@jorden9821]

@@georgethebugeater7950you have no idea about what I'm talking about

[@Loganvbills]

@jorden9821 Are we talking about the globalist agenda? People in our government giving themselves powers they were not meant to have?

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Stop using the R word please

[@bignastysavage150]

Bro looks like if Theo Von didn’t grow up in Florida

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Well i couldnt follow any of that.