Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton incorporated his political observations and knowledge into The Federalist. Hamilton penned more than half of The Federalist essays. It meant simply giving life to a dormant national government and allowing it to exercise and fulfill its responsibilities.
In Federalist 23, Hamilton asks what are the proper duties of a national government. He contends they are providing for the common defense, preserving public peace, regulating interstate commerce and foreign trade, and conducting foreign affairs. To charge someone with a responsibility yet not empower them to perform their duty is imprudent. That is what Hamilton believed. In Federalist 23, he writes that if the national government is given the task of providing for the common defense then it should have the necessary authority to do so.
Even the framers of the Articles, Hamilton points out, understood this necessity: they allowed Congress to ask the states for unlimited requests for men and money to wage war; however, they erroneously trusted states to provide adequate goods and munitions and men for the national government to use at its discretion. States many times ignored requests. To make the Union last, a change in governmental structure, Hamilton contends, was imperative: power and the means necessary must be given to the national government to provide for a common defense.
Hamilton was aware of the lingering Anti-Federal skepticism and considered many of their objections to be merely nitpicking. Hamilton and other Federalists believed, write constitutional scholars Colleen A.
Sheehan and Gary L. Need assistance? Use our online form to ask a librarian for help. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time.
The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution, which was drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of In lobbying for adoption of the Constitution over the existing Articles of Confederation, the essays explain particular provisions of the Constitution in detail.
For this reason, and because Hamilton and Madison were each members of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers are often used today to help interpret the intentions of those drafting the Constitution.
They were reprinted in other newspapers in New York state and in several cities in other states. A bound edition, with revisions and corrections by Hamilton, was published in by printers J. An edition published by printer Jacob Gideon in , with revisions and corrections by Madison, was the first to identify each essay by its author's name.
Because of its publishing history, the assignment of authorship, numbering, and exact wording may vary with different editions of The Federalist. The electronic text of The Federalist used here was compiled for Project Gutenberg by scholars who drew on many available versions of the papers. One printed edition of the text is The Federalist , edited by Jacob E. Cooke Middletown, Conn. Cooke's introduction provides background information on the printing history of The Federalist; the information provided above comes in part from his work.
This web-friendly presentation of the original text of the Federalist Papers also known as The Federalist was obtained from the e-text archives of Project Gutenberg. Any irregularities with regard to grammar, syntax, spelling, or punctuation are as they exist in the original e-text archives.
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General Introduction. Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence. Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States. The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States. The Utility of the Union in Respect to Revenue.
Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy in Government.
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