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THE
FEDERALIST.
A COMMENTARY
ON THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
A Collection of Essays,
BY
ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
JAY AND MADISON.
ALSO
The Continentalist and Other Papers,
HAMILTON.
EDITED BY
JOHN C. HAMILTON,
AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District
of New York.
CONTENTS.
HISTORICAL NOTICE.....
Resolution for a General Convention of the States, passed by the
Legislature of New York, Sunday, July 21, 1782.
Hamilton to Governor Clinton, Philadelphia, May 14, 1783............
Resolution for a General Convention, 1783..........
Annapolis Convention, Address of, September 14, 1786
Speech on the Impost Grant.......................
PAGE
ix
1
3
4
8
11
.... 25
Resolution for an Act by Congress Recommending the Holding a
Convention, February 17, 1787........
Resolution for the Appointment by New York of Delegates to the
General Convention, February 26, 1787............
Articles of Confederation........
25
26
Hamilton's First Plan of Government........
31
The Federal Constitution, as agreed upon by the Convention, Sep-
tember 17, 1787.........
39
NUMBER
I. Introduction .......
49
II. Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence...... 54
VI. Concerning Dangers from War between the States...........
VII. The Subject continued, and Particular Causes Enumerated 83
VIII. The Effects of Internal War in Producing Standing Armies,
and other Institutions unfriendly to Liberty.................. 90
IX. The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic
Faction and Insurrection......................
.... 97
X. The same Subject continued..........
.... 104
XI. The Utility of the Union in respect to Commerce and a
Navy.........
......... 113
XII. The Utility of the Union in respect to Revenue
121
XIII. The same Subject continued, with a View to Economy.. 128
XIV. An Objection drawn from the Extent of Country
answered.............
XV. Concerning the Defects of the Present Confederation,
in Relation to the Principle of Legislation for the
States in their Collective Capacities........
131
..... 138
XVI. The same Subject continued, in Relation to the same
Principles
XVII. The Subject continued, and Illustrated by Examples, to
show the Tendency of Federal Governments, rather
to Anarchy among the Members, than Tyranny in
the Head.......
147
..... 153
XVIII. The Subject continued, with farther Examples............ 158
XIX. The Subject continued, with farther Examples............ 165
XX. The same Subject continued, with farther Examples..... 172
XXI. Further Defects of the Present Constitution...................................... 178
XXII. The same Subject continued and concluded................. 184
XXIII. The Necessity of a Government at least equally Ener-
getic with the one proposed................
195
XXIV. The Subject continued, with an Answer to an Objection
concerning Standing Armies.......
201
XXV. The Subject continued, with the same View............................................ 207
XXVI. The Subject continued, with the same View................ 213
XXVII. The Subject continued, with the same View............................................ 225
XXXV. The same Subject continued .......
XXXVI. The same Subject continued...........
XXXVII. Concerning the Difficulties which the Convention must
have experienced in the Formation of a Proper Plan.. 282
..... 263
273