(The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection) From the Daily Advertiser Thursday, November 22, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.…
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Federalist No 9, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 21, 1787 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…
Federalist No 8, The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States
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 7, Concerning Dangers from Dissensions, Continued
(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…
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…