Thank you for this. This will be my next ‘assignment’ after I finish reading the Federalist Papers. According to the late Antonin Scalia, the Federalist Papers are not well known, but are just as important as our other founding documents, and are meant to compliment them.
Read the Anti-Federalist Papers too.
They seem almost prophetic in predicting what our government would eventually turn into.
I found reading Adams’ work much easier than the Federalist Papers, which were very lawyerly. Though Adams was an erudite lawyer himself, he had a much more down-to-earth style of writing, though he can go off into lengthy tangents.
And the two works were written for totally different purposes and audiences.
And Seowolf is right about the Anti-Federalist papers! Very enlightening!