From the New York Packet Tuesday, December 25, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: IT HAS been urged, in different shapes, that a Constitution of the kind proposed by the convention cannot operate without the aid of a military force to execute its laws. This, however, like most other things that…
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Federalist No 26, The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority…
…in Regard to the Common Defense Considered For the Independent Journal Saturday, December 22, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER and…
Federalist No 25, The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense, Continued
From the New York Packet Friday, December 21, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: IT MAY perhaps be urged that the objects enumerated in the preceding number ought to be provided for by the State governments, under the direction of the Union. But this would be, in reality, an inversion of…
Federalist No 24, The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered
For the Independent Journal Wednesday, December 19, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: TO THE powers proposed to be conferred upon the federal government, in respect to the creation and direction of the national forces, I have met with but one specific objection, which, if I understand it right, is this,…
Federalist No 23, The Necessity of a Government as Energetic…
…as the One Proposed to the Preservation of the Union From the New York Packet Tuesday, December 18, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: THE necessity of a Constitution, at least equally energetic with the one proposed, to the preservation of the Union, is the point at the examination of which…