... , shippers, bankers, speculators, and private and public security holders. No one was better prepared to defend the Constitution than New Yorker, and federalist, Alexander Hamilton. In 1787 he worked with John Jay and James Madison to write series of 85 essays in support of the Constitution. Known as "The Federalist Papers," these remarkable essays proved critical in achieving ratification of the ... advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law. The idea that "states' rights" superseded federal law was promoted by John C. Cal...

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