(Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States) For the Independent Journal Thursday, November 15, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: IT IS sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducements could the States have, if disunited, to make war upon each other? It would be a full answer to…
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Federalist No 6, Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States
For the Independent Journal Wednesday, November 14, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations. I shall now…
Federalist No 5, Dangers From Foreign Force, Continued
(Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal Saturday, November 10, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: QUEEN ANNE, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the UNION then forming between England and Scotland, which merit…
Federalist No 4, Dangers From Foreign Force, Continued
(Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal Wednesday, November 7, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: MY LAST paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people would be best secured by union against the danger it may be exposed to by JUST causes of war…
Federalist No 3, Dangers From Foreign Force, Continued
(Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal Saturday, November 3, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: IT IS not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and well informed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere for many years in an erroneous…