The Same Subject Continued(The Total Number of the House of Representatives) From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 19, 1788. HAMILTON OR MADISON To the People of the Stat
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Written between October 1787 and August 1788, The Federalist Papers is a collection of newspaper essays written in defense of the Constitution. Writing under the penname Publius, Alexander Hamilton, James
The militia’s main responsibility would be to protect the nation from phenomena that can or will endanger national security. First, in “The Federalist 29”, Hamilton writes th
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The Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people's liberty against combinations of gover
The Anti-Federalist such as Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry and George Mason were fearful that the proposed Constitution would eventually evolve in to a government that would abuse the rights that is was created to protect. They predicted that the gov
