Which of the following are true of the federalist papers? select all that apply.
a defense of the newly written constitution
a list of articles about democratic nations
a call for revolution
written by alexander hamilton and james madison
explaining why people have voting rights

The Federalist Papers were:

-a defense of the newly written Constitution.

-written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (with a lesser participation of John Jay).

The Federalist Papers were a collection of articles written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, published to promote the Constitution of the United States. They were published in 1787 in several states of America and contained 85 articles that highlighted how this new government would operate and why this type of government was the best choice for the United States of America.

This collection was an important source for the interpretation of the new Constitution and mainly the motives for this proposed government system. These articles responded to newspaper criticism of the new US government. They were therefore an excellent reference for understanding the new Constitution that the people were called upon to ratify.

The corrects answers are A) a defense of the newly written Constitution and D) written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

What is true about the federalist papers is that  that they were a defense of the newly written Constitution and they were written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

The Federalist papers were a series of documents written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Jhon Jay. They appear in some New York's newspapers in 1784 and 1785. In 1877, delegates of every stated joined together in Philadelphia to draft a new Constitution in the Constitutional Convention. The Federalist papers cited the urgency for the new constitution to be ratified. These papers contained the intent of the framers on the importance of the new constitution.