...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Papers FEDERALIST. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal exper... ...s and discourage it. That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resou... ...hat of the whole. It can apply the resources and power of the whole to the defense of any par- ticular part, and that more easily and expeditiously th... ...t than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies. What would the militia of Britain be if the English militia obey... ...g Dangers from Dissensions Between the States For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: The three last numbers of ... ...ame a victim to Macedon, the latter was spared by the policy of Philip and Alexander. Under the successors of these princes, however, a different poli... ...e are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe. Those of Japan, not less than of New York, may furnish the objects of legal discussi...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...