The Federalist Papers
On Federalist No. 7: The Same Subject Continued...
Hamilton presses the case for likely conflict between the states, walking through territory, trade, and debt as flashpoints. The essay is a sober inventory of where fellow citizens might come...
On Federalist No. 7: The Same Subject Continued...
Hamilton presses the case for likely conflict between the states, walking through territory, trade, and debt as flashpoints. The essay is a sober inventory of where fellow citizens might come...
On Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from Di...
Hamilton shifts the danger inward, arguing that separate states would not stay at peace with one another. Ambition, commercial rivalry, and the ordinary friction of neighbors have set nations against...
On Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from Di...
Hamilton shifts the danger inward, arguing that separate states would not stay at peace with one another. Ambition, commercial rivalry, and the ordinary friction of neighbors have set nations against...
On Federalist No. 5: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay closes his foreign-danger sequence with a hard look at what disunion would actually feel like: rival confederacies, shifting alliances, and the slow drift toward treating neighbors as threats. Union...
On Federalist No. 5: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay closes his foreign-danger sequence with a hard look at what disunion would actually feel like: rival confederacies, shifting alliances, and the slow drift toward treating neighbors as threats. Union...
On Federalist No. 4: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay turns from the causes of war to its conduct, holding that a united America can field a single defense and speak abroad with one steady voice. Division, he warns,...
On Federalist No. 4: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay turns from the causes of war to its conduct, holding that a united America can field a single defense and speak abroad with one steady voice. Division, he warns,...
On Federalist No. 3: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay continues on foreign danger, arguing that a single national government will handle treaties and disputes with more care and consistency than thirteen separate ones could. The thread is competence:...
On Federalist No. 3: The Same Subject Continued...
Jay continues on foreign danger, arguing that a single national government will handle treaties and disputes with more care and consistency than thirteen separate ones could. The thread is competence:...
On Federalist No. 2: Concerning Dangers from Fo...
Jay makes the case that Americans are already one people by geography, language, and shared struggle, and that union is the natural inheritance rather than a novelty to be feared....
On Federalist No. 2: Concerning Dangers from Fo...
Jay makes the case that Americans are already one people by geography, language, and shared struggle, and that union is the natural inheritance rather than a novelty to be feared....