The Same Subject Continued: The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. Our […]

The Same Subject Continued: The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 25, 1787. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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 […]

The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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 Same Subject Continued: The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered From the New York Packet. Friday, December 21, 1787. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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 […]

The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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, […]

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. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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 Same Subject Continued: Other Defects of the Present Confederation From the New York Packet. Friday, December 14, 1787. Author: Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: IN ADDITION to the defects already enumerated in the existing federal system, there are others of not less importance, which concur in rendering it […]

Other Defects of the Present Confederation For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton 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 […]

The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 11, 1787. Author: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison 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, […]

The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison 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 […]