<P> The authorship of seventy - three of The Federalist essays is fairly certain . Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars , though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos. 49 -- 58 , with Nos. 18 -- 20 being products of a collaboration between him and Hamilton ; No. 64 was by John Jay . The first open designation of which essay belonged to whom was provided by Hamilton who , in the days before his ultimately fatal gun duel with Aaron Burr , provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number . This list credited Hamilton with a full sixty - three of the essays ( three of those being jointly written with Madison ) , almost three - quarters of the whole , and was used as the basis for an 1810 printing that was the first to make specific attribution for the essays . </P>
<P> The authorship of seventy - three of The Federalist essays is fairly certain . Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars , though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos. 49 -- 58 , with Nos. 18 -- 20 being products of a collaboration between him and Hamilton ; No. 64 was by John Jay . The first open designation of which essay belonged to whom was provided by Hamilton who , in the days before his ultimately fatal gun duel with Aaron Burr , provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number . This list credited Hamilton with a full sixty - three of the essays ( three of those being jointly written with Madison ) , almost three - quarters of the whole , and was used as the basis for an 1810 printing that was the first to make specific attribution for the essays . </P>
who wrote the most essays in the federalist papers
who wrote the most essays in the federalist papers
Hamilton
Hamilton