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Reviewing the American Experiment’s Lab Notes

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Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

Portraits by John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn/Wikimedia

I’ve been reading and re-reading many texts from the early years of America, and I’ve found my way back to The Federalist Papers. By the end of this summer, I’m hoping that my second-hand paperback copy of Madison and Hamilton’s eighty-five essays will be thoroughly annotated and loved.

Federalist No. 1 reminds us how America was originally an experiment:

Corinne Cowan

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Corinne Cowan

Corinne Cowan is an editorial intern for National Review through the Buckley Institute. A rising sophomore at Yale University, Corinne studies politics and philosophy and hails from Memphis, Tenn.

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