For the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: As CONNECTED with the subject of revenue, we may with propriety consider that of economy. The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much the less to be drawn from the pockets of […]
Federalist No. 13: Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy in Government Read More
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 27, 1787. To the People of the State of New York: THE effects of Union upon the commercial prosperity of the States have been sufficiently delineated. Its tendency to promote the interests of revenue will be the subject of our present inquiry. The prosperity of commerce is now
Federalist No. 12: The Utility of the Union In Respect to Revenue Read More
For the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: THE importance of the Union, in a commercial light, is one of those points about which there is least room to entertain a difference of opinion, and which has, in fact, commanded the most general assent of men who have any acquaintance
Federalist No. 11: The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy Read More
From the New York Packet. Friday, November 23, 1787. To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much
For the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling
Federalist No. 9: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection Read More
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 20, 1787. To the People of the State of New York: ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject
Federalist No. 8: The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States Read More
For the Independent Journal. 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 this question to say–precisely the same inducements which have, at different