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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The Federalist Papers -- papers 41-45
To repeat salient points about what's going on here:
- I'm serializing some of my Librivox recordings here in my blog.
- I generally record two or three chapters from each book in a week.
- I won't be hurt if you never download these but I thought I'd put them here in case anyone felt like following along.
- For bandwidth reasons, please only download each file once (right-click and save, or whatever it is that you superior Mac people do to download a file from a link). And if I do end up running out of available bandwidth I'll simply stop posting these.
- Also please tell me if you hear mistakes/repeats as you go. If you know the minutes/seconds at which the mistake occurs, so much the better.
The Federalist Papers started out not as a book but as a series of editorials, if you will, aimed at convincing the people of the newborn United States to ratify the Constitution. They were written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, and were compiled into a book almost as soon as the series ended. They're an important piece of U.S. History and constitutional law. I volunteered to read papers 41 through 46, which were written by Madison and which mostly deal with the quantity of powers granted to the federal government by the new Constitution. I think when I've finished these (I only have 46 left to do, and if my mild sore throat clears up I'd like to record it tonight) I will volunteer for another section.
