The Federalist Papers
On Federalist No. 37: Concerning the Difficulti...
Madison steps back to reflect on how hard the Convention's task really was, balancing stability against liberty and the claims of large states against small. The essay is an unusually...
On Federalist No. 37: Concerning the Difficulti...
Madison steps back to reflect on how hard the Convention's task really was, balancing stability against liberty and the claims of large states against small. The essay is an unusually...
On Federalist No. 36: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton closes the taxation sequence by addressing fears of double taxation and federal overreach into internal duties. The remedy he points to is the same throughout: an accountable legislature, watched...
On Federalist No. 36: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton closes the taxation sequence by addressing fears of double taxation and federal overreach into internal duties. The remedy he points to is the same throughout: an accountable legislature, watched...
On Federalist No. 35: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton takes up the practical objections to taxation, including the worry that legislators cannot represent every trade. He argues that broad classes of interest find their voice through natural leaders,...
On Federalist No. 35: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton takes up the practical objections to taxation, including the worry that legislators cannot represent every trade. He argues that broad classes of interest find their voice through natural leaders,...
On Federalist No. 34: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton continues on concurrent taxation, illustrating how national and state revenue can run side by side without collision. The country's future needs, he argues, are too large to leave the...
On Federalist No. 34: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton continues on concurrent taxation, illustrating how national and state revenue can run side by side without collision. The country's future needs, he argues, are too large to leave the...
On Federalist No. 33: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton answers alarm over the necessary-and-proper and supremacy clauses, arguing they add no power that the grant of authority did not already imply. They state plainly what any working government...
On Federalist No. 33: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton answers alarm over the necessary-and-proper and supremacy clauses, arguing they add no power that the grant of authority did not already imply. They state plainly what any working government...
On Federalist No. 32: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton reassures the states that the national taxing power leaves their own largely intact. The two can coexist, he argues, drawing on the same citizens without one extinguishing the other,...
On Federalist No. 32: The Same Subject Continue...
Hamilton reassures the states that the national taxing power leaves their own largely intact. The two can coexist, he argues, drawing on the same citizens without one extinguishing the other,...