The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.
Author(s): Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 512
0192805924......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Note on the Text......Page 40
Synopsis of The Federalist Papers......Page 43
Select Bibliography......Page 44
A Chronology of Events 1763 – 1791......Page 48
Map of the United States c.1789......Page 51
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS......Page 52
1. Introduction......Page 62
2. Concerning dangers from foreign force and influence......Page 65
3. The same subject continued......Page 69
4. The same subject continued......Page 73
5. The same subject continued......Page 76
6. Concerning dangers from war between the States......Page 80
7. The subject continued and particular causes enumerated......Page 85
8. The effects of internal war in producing standing armies and other institutions unfriendly to liberty......Page 90
9. The utility of the Union as a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection......Page 95
10. The same subject continued......Page 99
11. The utility of the Union in respect to commerce and a navy......Page 106
12. The utility of the Union in respect to revenue......Page 111
13. The same subject continued with a view to economy......Page 116
14. An objection drawn from the extent of country answered......Page 118
15. Concerning the defects of the present Confederation in relation to the principle of legislation for the States in their collective capacities......Page 123
16. The same subject continued in relation to the same principle......Page 130
17. The subject continued and illustrated by examples to show the tendency of federal governments rather to anarchy among the members than tyranny in the head......Page 135
18. The subject continued with farther examples......Page 138
19. The subject continued with farther examples......Page 143
20. The subject continued with farther examples......Page 148
21. Further defects of the present Constitution......Page 152
22. The same subject continued and concluded......Page 156
23. The necessity of a government at least equally energetic with the one proposed......Page 164
24. The subject continued with an answer to an objection concerning standing armies......Page 168
25. The subject continued with the same view......Page 173
26. The subject continued with the same view......Page 177
27. The subject continued with the same view......Page 182
28. The same subject concluded......Page 185
29. Concerning the militia......Page 189
30. Concerning taxation......Page 194
31. The same subject continued......Page 198
32. The same subject continued......Page 202
33. The same subject continued......Page 205
34. The same subject continued......Page 209
35. The same subject continued......Page 214
36. The same subject continued......Page 219
37. Concerning the dificulties which the Convention must have experienced in the formation of a proper plan......Page 225
38. The subject continued and the incoherence of the objections to the plan exposed......Page 231
39. The conformity of the plan to republican principles: an objection in respect to the powers of the Convention examined......Page 238
40. The same objection further examined......Page 244
41. General view of the powers proposed to be vested in the Union......Page 251
42. The same view continued......Page 258
43. The same view continued......Page 265
44. The same view continued and concluded......Page 272
45. A further discussion of the supposed danger from the powers of the Union to the State governments......Page 279
46. The subject of the last paper resumed with an examination of the comparative means of influence of the federal and State governments......Page 284
47. The meaning of the maxim, which requires a separation of the departments of power, examined and ascertained......Page 290
48. The same subject continued with a view to the means of giving efficacy in practice to that maxim......Page 296
49. The same subject continued with the same view......Page 300
50. The same subject continued with the same view......Page 304
51. The same subject continued with the same view and concluded......Page 307
52. Concerning the House of Representatives, with a view to the qualifications of the electors and elected, and the time of service of the members......Page 311
53. The same subject continued with a view of the term of the service of the members......Page 315
54. The same subject continued with a view to the ratio of representation......Page 320
55. The same subject continued in relation to the total number of the body......Page 324
56. The same subject continued in relation to the same point......Page 329
57. The same subject continued in relation to the supposed tendency of the plan of the Convention to elevate the few above he many......Page 332
58. The same subject continued in relation to the future augmentation of the members......Page 337
59. Concerning the regulation of elections......Page 342
60. The same subject continued......Page 346
61. The same subject continued and concluded......Page 351
62. Concerning the constitution of the Senate with regard to the qualifications of the members, the manner of appointing them, the quality of representation, the number of the senators and the duration of their appointments......Page 354
63. A further view of the constitution of the Senate in regard to the duration of appointment of its members......Page 360
64. A further view of the constitution of the Senate in regard to the power of making treaties......Page 366
65. A further view of the constitution of the Senate in relation to its capacity as a court for the trial of impeachments......Page 371
66. The same subject continued......Page 376
67. Concerning the constitution of the President: a gross attempt to misrepresent this part of the plan detected......Page 381
68. The view of the constitution of the President continued in relation to the mode of appointment......Page 385
69. The same view continued, with a comparison between the President and the King of Great Britain on the one hand, and the governor of New York on the other......Page 388
70. The same view continued in relation to the unity of the executive, with an examination of the project of an executive council......Page 394
71. The same view continued in regard to the duration of the office......Page 401
72. The same view continued in regard to the re-eligibility of the President......Page 405
73. The same view continued in relation to the provision concerning support and the power of the negative......Page 410
74. The same view continued in relation to the command of the national forces and the power of pardoning......Page 415
75. The same view continued in relation to the power of making treaties......Page 417
76. The same view continued in relation to the appointment of the officers of the government......Page 421
77. The view of the constitution of the President concluded, with a further consideration of the power of appointment, and a concise examination of his remaining powers......Page 425
78. A view of the constitution of the judicial department in relation to the tenure of good behaviour......Page 430
79. A further view of the judicial department in relation to the provisions for the support and responsibility of the judges......Page 436
80. A further view of the judicial department in relation to the extent of its powers......Page 439
81. A further view of the judicial department in relation to the distribution of its authority......Page 444
82. A further view of the judicial department in reference to some miscellaneous questions......Page 453
83. A further view of the judicial department in relation to the trial by jury......Page 456
84. Concerning several miscellaneous objections......Page 468
85. Conclusion......Page 477
Appendix: The Constitution of the United States (1787 and 1791)......Page 484
Explanatory Notes......Page 498
D......Page 518
M......Page 519
R......Page 520
W......Page 521
