The Federalist Papers
On Federalist No. 25: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton continues on defense, arguing that leaving military matters to individual states would be both unequal and unsafe. National problems, he holds, need national answers, and security is among the...
On Federalist No. 25: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton continues on defense, arguing that leaving military matters to individual states would be both unequal and unsafe. National problems, he holds, need national answers, and security is among the...
On Federalist No. 24: The Powers Necessary to t...
Hamilton defends the power to keep armed forces in peacetime, answering the fear of standing armies with the reality of frontiers and foreign neighbors. The argument trusts an accountable legislature...
On Federalist No. 24: The Powers Necessary to t...
Hamilton defends the power to keep armed forces in peacetime, answering the fear of standing armies with the reality of frontiers and foreign neighbors. The argument trusts an accountable legislature...
On Federalist No. 23: The Necessity of a Govern...
Hamilton opens the case for an energetic government, arguing that the powers needed for common defense cannot be fenced in by good intentions. If the country expects a government to...
On Federalist No. 23: The Necessity of a Govern...
Hamilton opens the case for an energetic government, arguing that the powers needed for common defense cannot be fenced in by good intentions. If the country expects a government to...
On Federalist No. 22: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton extends the indictment to trade and treaties, showing how the requirement for near-unanimous agreement let a small minority block the whole. The deeper charge is that the Confederation rested...
On Federalist No. 22: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton extends the indictment to trade and treaties, showing how the requirement for near-unanimous agreement let a small minority block the whole. The deeper charge is that the Confederation rested...
On Federalist No. 21: Other Defects of the Pres...
Hamilton returns to the present, cataloguing the defects of the Confederation with new specificity: no power to enforce its own laws, no fair way to share costs, no guard against...
On Federalist No. 21: Other Defects of the Pres...
Hamilton returns to the present, cataloguing the defects of the Confederation with new specificity: no power to enforce its own laws, no fair way to share costs, no guard against...
On Federalist No. 20: The Same Subject Continue...
Madison and Hamilton close the historical survey with the Dutch republic, another union undone by the gap between what it claimed and what it could enforce. The accumulated examples make...
On Federalist No. 20: The Same Subject Continue...
Madison and Hamilton close the historical survey with the Dutch republic, another union undone by the gap between what it claimed and what it could enforce. The accumulated examples make...