Federalist No. 85
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Essay
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by Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
and the eighty-fifth and last of the United States
United States
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Federalist Papers
Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788...
. It was published on August 13 and 16, 1788 under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
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Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. The title is, "Concluding Remarks."