Federalist No. 38 is an essay by James Madison, the thirty-eighth of the Federalist Papers. James Madison Jr (March 16 1751 – June 28 1836 was an American Politician, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817 and one of the Founding The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. It was published on January 12, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1788 ( MDCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Madison continues his topic from Federalist No. 37, the political questions examined by the constitutional convention. Federalist No 37 is an essay by James Madison, the thirty-seventh of the Federalist Papers. The Philadelphia Convention (now also known as the Constitutional Convention, the Federal Convention, or the " Grand Convention at Philadelphia The essay is titled, "The Same Subject Continued, and the Incoherence of the Objections to the New Plan Exposed. "