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While he did not explicitly name the authors, his citation of I Federalist i 77, which argues that the President and the Senate should share the removal power, was intended to show that Madison, whom he knew to be one of I The Federalist i 's authors, had since changed his position on this issue.[39] While the citation was meant to embarrass Madison, making him come to terms with his own hypocrisy, Smith did not realize that the essay was actually written by Hamilton. In the first of his essays, Helvidius cited I Federalist i 75, an essay that Hamilton had written, to suggest that the power of making treaties was reserved to the legislative branch.[79] While he did not mention Hamilton by name, the implication was clear: the position that Hamilton took as Pacificus differed from that which he had earlier articulated as Publius.[80] Madison meant to embarrass Hamilton, who would at least have known that he had changed his own position. On 5 February 1788, as the states were debating the ratification of the American Constitution, George Washington wrote to his friend and ally in the pro-Constitution fight, Henry Knox, demanding, "who is the author or authors of Publius?" When, in 1799, John Tiebout published the first American edition of I The Federalist i since the 1788 McLean edition, he did not mention the authors' names anywhere.[72] In the United States, largely because Hamilton and Madison continued to exert control over the editions published, the process of unmasking was far more gradual. [Extracted from the article] |
