Source: The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, eds. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: The Federalist No. 65, [7 March 1788], No. 68, [12 March 1788], No. 70,…
THE President is to have power, “by and with the advice and consent of the…
THE President of the United States is to be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy…
THE third ingredient towards constituting the vigor of the executive authority is an adequate provision…
DURATION in office has been mentioned as the second requisite to the energy of the…
THE administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body…
I PROCEED now to trace the real characters of the proposed executive, as they are…
THE constitution of the executive department of the proposed government claims next our attention. There…
RESUMING the subject of the last paper, I proceed to inquire whether the federal government…
A fifth class of provisions in favor of the federal authority consists of the following…
The second class of powers lodged in the general government consist of those which regulate…
A REVIEW of the principal objections that have appeared against the proposed court for the…
I SHALL here, perhaps, be reminded of a current observation, “that where annual elections end,…
FROM the more general inquiries pursued in the four last papers, I pass on to…
IT MAY be contended, perhaps, that instead of occasional appeals to the people, which are…
HAVING shown that no one of the powers transferred to the federal government is unnecessary…
THE fourth class comprises the following miscellaneous powers: 1. A power “to promote the progress…
THE second point to be examined is whether the convention were authorized to frame and…
The Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view.…
IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history in…
THE last paper having concluded the observations which were meant to introduce a candid survey…
IN REVIEWING the defects of the existing Confederation, and showing that they cannot be supplied…
WE HAVE seen that the result of the observations to which the foregoing number has…
ALTHOUGH I am of opinion that there would be no real danger of the consequences…
THE residue of the argument against the provisions of the Constitution in respect to taxation…
THE remaining powers which the plan of the convention allots to the Senate, in a…
IT IS a just and not a new observation that enemies to particular persons, and…
HAVING examined the constitution of the House of Representatives, and answered such of the objections…
THE more candid opposers of the provisions respecting elections contained in the plan of the…
WE HAVE seen that an uncontrollable power over the elections to the federal government could…
THE natural order of the subject leads us to consider, in this place, that provision…
Madison THE remaining charge against the House of Representatives, which I am to examine, is…
Madison THE third charge against the House of Representatives is that it will be taken…
THE second charge against the House of Representatives is that it will be too small…
THE number of which the House of Representatives is to consist forms another and a…
I FLATTER myself it has been clearly shown in my last number that the particular…
The President is “to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the…
THE power of regulating the militia and of commanding its services in times of insurrection…
IT HAS been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation…
IT HAS been already observed that the federal government ought to possess the power of…
THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort…
IT HAS been urged in different shapes that a Constitution of the kind proposed by…
IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds…
IT MAY perhaps be urged that the objects enumerated in the preceding number ought to…
TO THE powers proposed to be conferred upon the federal government, in respect to the…
IN ADDITION to the defects already enumerated in the existing federal system, there are others…
HAVING in the three last numbers taken a summary review of the principal circumstances and…
Next to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges…
THE United Netherlands are a confederacy of republics, or rather of aristocracies of a very…
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