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Federalist No 21, Other Defects of the Present Confederation

For the Independent Journal Wednesday, December 12, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: HAVING in the three last numbers taken a summary review of the principal circumstances and events which have depicted the genius and fate of other confederate governments, I shall now proceed in the enumeration of the most important…

Federalist No 20, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation, Continued

(w/ Alexander Hamilton) From the New York Packet Tuesday, December 11, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: THE United Netherlands are a confederacy of republics, or rather of aristocracies of a very remarkable texture, yet confirming all the lessons derived from those which we have already reviewed. The union is composed…

Federalist No 19, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation, Continued

(w/ Alexander Hamilton) For the New York Packet Saturday, December 8, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: THE examples of ancient confederacies, cited in my last paper, have not exhausted the source of experimental instruction on this subject. There are existing institutions, founded on a similar principle, which merit particular consideration.…

Federalist No 18, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation, Continued

(w/ Alexander Hamilton) For the New York Packet Friday, December 7, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the confederacies of antiquity, the most considerable was that of the Grecian republics, associated under the Amphictyonic council. From the best accounts transmitted of this celebrated institution, it bore a very instructive analogy…

Federalist No 17, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation, Continued

For the Independent Journal Wednesday, December 5, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: AN OBJECTION, of a nature different from that which has been stated and answered, in my last address, may perhaps be likewise urged against the principle of legislation for the individual citizens of America. It may be said…