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Hamilton's best-known contribution to the ratification struggle, of course, was his authorship of most of The Federalist. Rossiter perceptively points out that there was surprisingly little disagreement between Hamilton and his coauthors, Madison and Jay. He writes: "The tough yet not despairing political theory that runs through Hamilton's 50-odd contributions is the same that carried him through his mature life." At New York's ratification con vention, it was Hamilton's charming, persuasive leadership that guided a pro-constitutional minority (19 of 46 delegates) "from the likelihood of defeat through the near...
...federalist panelist, Carter Higgins, president of the Worcester Pressed Steel Co. and the New England World Federalists, came to the meeting, as he said expecting to confront a John Bircher. He spent much of the discussion attacking Birchite anti-disarmament and anti-United Nations slogans. He said, "You can get together with the Russians if you have...
...Using machines at Harvard and M.I.T., scientists have, in past years, programmed a computer to simulate a complex business operation, to create a "model" river system now being used on problems of water logging and salinity in the Indus River Basin, and to help determine the authors of the Federalist Papers...
...Chicago's David L. Wallace, who have great faith that math can supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office of Naval Research and Harvard's Laboratory of Social Relations, and went to work...
Problem: Hamilton and Madison were such similar masters of the ornate Spectator style that the mean sentence lengths in their known Federalist Papers are 34.55 words for Hamilton, 34.59 for Madison. Which twin gets the credit? Procedure: Determine how often each man used 30 key words-"function" words such as an, on, to, by, of, this, also, and "markers" such as vigor, direction, whilst, upon. In his known writings, for example, it turns out that Hamilton used upon at a rate of three per 1,000 words-or 18 times more often than Madison. The next step was to compile...