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Note to the Reader - George W. Carey, In Defense of the Constitution [1989]

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In Defense of the Constitution, revised and expanded edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1995).

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Note to the Reader

Throughout this book all references to The Federalist are to the student edition edited by George W. Carey and James McClellan (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1990). The parenthetical citations in the text refer to essay number and page except when the essay number is evident from the discussion.

The following abbreviations have been used in the parenthetical citations in the text of chapter 1, “Publius—A Split Personality?” SP refers to Alpheus T. Mason’s article, “The Federalist—A Split Personality,” American Historical Review 57 (1952); TF, to Gottfried Dietze’s The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1960); and DP, to Douglass Adair’s article, “The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers,” reprinted in Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair, ed. Trevor Colbourn (New York: W. W. Norton, 1974).