Federalist No. 43
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Federalist No. 43 is an essay by James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

, the forty-third of the Federalist Papers
Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788...

. It was published on January 23, 1788 under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

 Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This paper continues a theme begun by Madison in Federalist No. 42
Federalist No. 42
Federalist No. 42 is an essay by James Madison, and the forty-second of the Federalist Papers. It was published on January 22, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Federalist No. 42 continues a theme that was started in Federalist No...

. It is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered."

The Paper contains the only reference to the Copyright Clause
Copyright Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:- Other Terms :This clause is also referred to as:* Copyright and Patent Clause* Patent and Copyright Clause...

 in the Federalist Papers. In the brief discussion of the Clause, Madison states that "the utility of this power will scarcely be questioned." He also notes the Framer's intent for the federal government to have exclusive jurisdiction over patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

 and copyright law. Despite its perfunctory discussion of the Clause, the Paper remains one of the few sources describing the rationales and motivations for the language and intent of the Clause.

The essay also references a desire that the national government be given exclusive jurisdiction over a new national capitol.
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