The Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts (1789–1800)Introduction |
What famous documents did John Jay help write? |
John Jay, along with future president James Madison and future Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, wrote the Federalist Papers, a series of essays designed to arouse public support for the new U.S. Constitution. Madison and Hamilton were the primary authors of the eighty-five-essay set; Jay wrote about five essays.
U.S. general and future first president George Washington presides over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.