Hoping to gain New York's ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote a

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Hoping to gain New York's ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote a series of essays that have gone on to become an invaluable peek into the thought process of some of the Founding Fathers. 
What is the name of those essays?
Common Sense
The Federalist Papers
Silence Dogood letters
Declaration and Resolves (First Continental Congress)

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