...written in 1788, he furnishes ample proof, by the high encomiums he passed on the ' Federalist,' as ' the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written,' that he differed in no fundamental maxims from Washington. In the same letter, too, he shows that he...

...been named to me. 1 read it with care, pleasure and improvement, and was satisfied there was noib.Dg in it by one of those hands, and not a great deal...as being, in my opinion, the best commentary on the principle: of government, which ever was written. In some parts, it is discoverable that it.-: author...

...been named to me. 1 read it with care, pleasure and improvement, and was satisfied there was notb.ng in it by one of those hands, and not a great deal by a second. It does the highest honor to the-third, as being, in my opinion, the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever...

...pleasure and improvement, and was satisfied there was nothing in it by one of those hands, and not a groat deal by a second. It does the highest honor to the...ever was written. In some parts, it is discoverable lhat the author means only to say what may be best said in defence of opinions, in which ho did not...

...Posterity," and Jefferson, then United States minister in Paris, went so far as to say that they constituted "the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written." It has remained the most authoritative, as it was the earliest, commentary on the Constitution. Of...

...favorable response to the Constitution. Paine had argued in its favor, and The Federalist struck him as "the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written," rectifying his own views "in several points." But for him the notable achievement was not the new frame...

...Atlantic, surely exaggerated greatly, but in the right direction, when he pronounced The Federalist "the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written." Such an illuminating work, he wrote his most respected and esteemed friend, could not have borrowed...

...them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed by Thomas Jefferson as 'the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written', The Federalist Papers make a powerful case for power-sharing between state and federal authorities...

...time of their publication, were praised as a masterpiece of political theory — in Jefferson's words "the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written." But not all contemporaries, not even all the Federalists, agreed. Rufus King thought Oliver Ellsworth's...

...Although The Federalist is probably not what Jefferson called it in a letter to Madison in late 1788, "the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever was written," it is surely one of the most attractive to the general reader. Because it originated not as a treatise...