Note 242 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION. (continued 2)

Of the numbers in The Federalist, 51 were written by Hamilton, 29 by Madison, and 5 by Jay. But the frame of government which the book was written to explain and defend was not at all the work of Hamilton, whose part in the proceedings of the Federal Convention was almost nil. It was very largely the work of Madison, and while The Federalist shows Hamilton’s marvellous flexibility of intelligence, it is Madison who is master and Hamilton who is his expounder.