Dear Sir, The great object of a free people must be so to form their government and laws and so to administer them as to create a confidence in, and

Dear Sir, Thus I have examined the federal constitution as far as a few days leisure would permit. It opens to my mind a new scene; instead of seeing powers

Source: The Federalist and Other Constitutional Papers by Hamilton, Jay, Madison and Other Statesmen of Their Time, E. H. Scott, ed. (Chicago: Albert, Scott & Company, 1894), 867–874; https://goo.gl/xbm7mw. .

Dear Sir, The essential parts of a free and good government are a full and equal representation of the people in the legislature, and the jury trial of the vicinage

DEAR SIR, MY letters to you last winter, on the subject of a well balanced national government for the United States, were the result of a free enquiry; when I