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- W2029940192 abstract "Few writings in American politics have been as celebrated or as scrutinized as Federalist, eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published serially between October 1787 and May 1788. Scholars have dissected papers from a variety of disciplinary angles and toward a multitude of purposes. result has been a profusion of scholarship. As Lance Banning notes, The Federalist comes down to us today with what must surely be thickest overlay of scholarly interpretation ever lavished on a set of essays written with astounding speed and for a quite specific purpose. On same point Bernard Bailyn writes, The endless outpouring of scholarly writing on series . . . [approaches] an exquisite refinement of analysis that would have amazed harried authors, who wrote polemically, to help win a political battle.1Much of scholarly focus on Federalist has been on alleged differences in philosophies of Publius and on relative importance of various schools of thought and individual thinkers on series. Some scholars have labeled Publius a split personality. And much effort once went into settling competing claims about disputed authorship of some of numbers. But these questions are no longer compelling. Most scholars admit presence of multiple intellectual influences, authorship question seems clearly settled, and most also stress basic unity of Publius. As one historian has concluded, The Federalist is not a house divided. Although Madison and Hamilton divided fiercely in 1790s, we must not anachronistically read that later dispute backward in time when two men were collaborators.2But there is another angle of inquiry that merits pursuit: reading and analyzing essays as campaign documents and considering them not in light of political theory or intellectual origins, but as works whose original purpose and principal objective was to help Federalists achieve victory in ratification contests of 1787-88. To be sure, this focus is not new, but is so easily obscured in excess of scholarship - much of it concerned with other questions - that it deserves revisiting.3Meanwhile, it is still productive to ask how Publius participated in that campaign linguistically; that is, how did he go about shaping a rhetorical strategy to mobilize public opinion? And how did he voice his responses to anti-Federalists in ratification debate? Daniel Walker Howe took an illuminating step by analyzing rhetorical appeals of Federalist in terms of faculty psychology, or the study of human powers. In particular, Howe focused on way Publius directed his arguments, on different levels, to three types of readers - rational, self-interested, and passionate - by use of a flexible rhetoric. Similarly, Terence Ball analyzed linguistic turn Publius took in series to redefine words such as virtue, republic, and representation, whose meanings were contested in ratification debate. Michael P. Kramer demonstrated that Publius thought about role of language in both practical and theoretical terms, especially ways that ambiguity of language presented both opportunities and obstacles in creating, constituting, and explaining new government. And John Howe suggested that Federalists used language as a means of political innovation, ushering in an era not only of a new political science but also of a new political language.4This article builds on these and other efforts to understand Publius's various appeals to his audience by further explicating voices and strategies of rhetoric and persuasion he put to use. Its chief contribution is to analyze separate yet complementary voices of three Publiuses. Hamilton's voice was that of a committed partisan of ratification. He told readers in first number that he would not pretend to neutrality or impartiality. …" @default.
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- W2029940192 title "The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in <i>The Federalist</i>" @default.
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