About “Periodic Appeals to the People Considered”
Federalist No. 50 is the fiftieth essay in The Federalist Papers. It was first published in The New York Packet on February 5, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, which was used for all the essays. The title of the essay is "Periodic Appeals to the People Considered." The authorship of the essay is disputed, with some attributing it to James Madison and others to Alexander Hamilton. The essay discusses the idea of periodic appeals to the people as a check on government power. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)