Publius
Federalist Papers and Publius - someone helps us out and make the connections. What's Publius and what does it have to do with the Federalist Papers?
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posted by erdecker @ 11:43 AM
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The Federalist Papers were published under the psuedonym Publius, honoring Publius Valerius Publicola. This man was a Roman hero, a colleauge of the man who overthrew a tyrannical government in Rome and exchanged it for a Roman Republic in 509 BC.
The connection between the Constitution and the Romans is apparent. The same scenario was taking place in a different place and time.
In 1996, Publius would become an internet movement to allow information about the candidates to be more accessible to the American public.
Publius is the pen name that the Federalist Papers were written under by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. The Fed. Papers were written to gain popular support for the then-proposed Constitution.
I figured this out when I looked up Publius on Dictionary.com, but they just gave me bible name stuff, but also named the Fed. Papers as well.
During the Revolution process as America was born, the writers of the Federalist Papers used the pen name Publius after the ancient Roman hero who overthrew abusive government. Interestingly, it seems that the American forefathers called upon the memorable name of a historically famous person to instill a sense of patriotism in their people and their country. They successfully used a past savior to help with the governmental movement that presented itself in the early years of the United States.
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