The following is an excerpt from my book, The Book That Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation (Nordskog, 2009):

         Because New York was such a pivotal swing state in the acceptance of the U. S. Constitution, a series of anonymous letters began to appear in the newspapers there, under a pseudonym. These came to be known as the Federalist (sometimes called The Federalist Papers). These essays clearly help shed light on what the founders intended by the Constitution. The Federalist Papers should be required reading in our law schools, as should be the Constitution.
         The Federalist is a collection of eighty-five letters written by someone who called himself "Publius." The real identities of Publius were not known until many years later. The authors were, of course, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. It is believed that Hamilton wrote fifty-one of the Federalist treatises, Madison wrote twenty-six, and Jay wrote five. Author Clinton Rossiter, who wrote the Introduction for the 1961 collection of these classic letters to the editors, observes: "The Federalist is the most important work in political science that has ever been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States."
         All three writers of the Federalist were professing Christians. Hamilton may have gone astray for a while, but before he died, he made peace with Jesus Christ.

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