The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century

In the style of Glenn Beck’s #1 bestseller Common Sense, a fresh interpretation of the eighteenth-century Federalist Papers, selected and adapted into contemporary English.

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck’s Common Sense . Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation of The Federalist Papers, the eighteenth-century collection of political essays that defined and shaped our Constitution and laid bare the “original argument” between states’ rights and the federal government—a debate as relevant and urgent today as it was at the birth of our nation.

Adapting a selection of these essential essays—pseudonymously authored by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay—Glenn Beck has had them reworked into “modern” English for a contemporary audience. Beck provides his own illuminating commentary and annotations and has also brought together the viewpoints of historians and scholars, making this an insightful perspective on the historical works that remain the primary source for interpreting Constitutional law and the rights of American citizens.