Selected Federalist PapersBrilliant essays comprising a masterful exposition and defense of the proposed federal system of government and of the Constitution's carefully architected system of checks and balances. This volume contains 35 of the most famous and important pieces, concerning impeachment, dangers from foreign arms and influence, the need for a power of taxation, freedom of the press and the inadvisability of a bill of rights, the three-fifths rule for counting slaves, and much else. |
Contents
Whether the Constitution | 1 |
HAMILTON Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy | 37 |
MADISON General View of the Powers Conferred by | 41 |
HAMILTON The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation | 47 |
MADISON The Structure of the Government Must Furnish | 50 |
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