![]() ![]() ![]() As would “Publius” - author of The Federalist, a collection of newspaper essays published in New York City defending the Constitution - he introduced his own first essay with the observation that “the most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you.” Nothing less than “the dignity of human nature” and the blessings of liberty are at stake. 1 (1787), also addressed to the people of New York. “Brutus,” a New York Antifederalist, or opponent of the proposed Constitution (generally assumed to have been Robert Yates, a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention), anticipated by two weeks the opening paragraph of Federalist No. ![]()
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