Authors: Publius

1787–1789

Federalist 46

Source: “The Federalist Number 46, [29 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0261. Resuming the subject of the last paper I proceed to inquire whether the federal government or the

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1787–1789

Federalist 45

Source: “The Federalist Number 45, [26 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0254.  … Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition

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1787–1789

Federalist 39

Source: “The Federalist Number 39, [16 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0234.  … But it was not sufficient, say the adversaries of the proposed constitution, for the convention to

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1787–1789

Federalist 78

Source: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist, Gideon Edition, ed. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 401–408. . . .In unfolding the defects

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1787–1789

Federalist 64

George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 327–28, available at https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed. … It seldom happens in the negotiation of treaties, of

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1787–1789

Federalist 1

George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 1, available at https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed. After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting

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1787–1789

Federalist 51

Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001) To the people of the state of New York: TO WHAT expedient, then,

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1787–1789

Federalist 58

Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001). To the People of the State of New York: THE remaining charge against

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1787–1789

Federalist 62

Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001) To the people of the state of New York: HAVING examined the constitution

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