Federalist_No._50
Federalist No. 50
Federalist Paper by James Madison on Periodic Appeals to the People
Federalist No. 50 is the fiftieth essay of The Federalist Papers. The authorship of the work is disputed between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. It was first published in The New York Packet on February 5, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. It is titled "Periodic Appeals to the People Considered".