The Federalist Papers
CONTENTS
HAMILTON
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 its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
FEDERALIST No. 1. General Introduction
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, October 27, 1787
FEDERALIST No. 2. Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, October 31, 1787
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, November 3, 1787
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 7, 1787
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, November 10, 1787
FEDERALIST No. 6. Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 14, 1787
For the Independent Journal. Thursday, November 15, 1787
FEDERALIST No. 8. The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 20, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 21, 1787
From the Daily Advertiser. Thursday, November 22, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, November 24, 1787
FEDERALIST No. 12. The Utility of the Union In Respect to Revenue
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 27, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 28, 1787
From the New York Packet. Friday, November 30, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, December 1, 1787
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 4, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, December 5, 1787
For the New York Packet. Friday, December 7, 1787
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, December 8, 1787
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 11, 1787.
FEDERALIST No. 21. Other Defects of the Present Confederation
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, December 12, 1787
From the New York Packet. Friday, December 14, 1787.
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 18, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, December 19, 1787
From the New York Packet. Friday, December 21, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, December 22, 1788
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 25, 1787.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, December 26, 1787
FEDERALIST No. 29. Concerning the Militia
From the New York Packet. Wednesday, January 9, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 30. Concerning the General Power of Taxation
From the New York Packet. Friday, December 28, 1787.
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 1, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 2, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 2, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Saturday, January 5, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, January 5, 1788
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 8, 1788.
From the Daily Advertiser. Friday, January 11, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Saturday, January 12, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 39. The Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 16, 1788
For the New York Packet. Friday, January 18, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, January 19, 1788
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 22, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 23, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 44. Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States
From the New York Packet. Friday, January 25, 1788.
Considered For the Independent Journal. Saturday, January 26, 1788
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 29, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 30, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Friday, February 1, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, February 2, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 50. Periodical Appeals to the People Considered
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 5, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, February 6, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 52. The House of Representatives
From the New York Packet. Friday, February 8, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, February 9, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 54. The Apportionment of Members Among the States
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 12, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 55. The Total Number of the House of Representatives
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, February 13, 1788.
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, February 16, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 19, 1788.
Considered For the Independent Journal Wednesday, February 20, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Friday, February 22, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Saturday, February 23, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 26, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 62. The Senate
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, February 27, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 63. The Senate Continued
For the Independent Journal. Saturday, March 1, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 64. The Powers of the Senate
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, March 5, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 65. The Powers of the Senate Continued
From the New York Packet. Friday, March 7, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Saturday, March 8, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 67. The Executive Department
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, March 11, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 68. The Mode of Electing the President
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, March 12, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 69. The Real Character of the Executive
From the New York Packet. Friday, March 14, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 70. The Executive Department Further Considered
From The Independent Journal. Saturday, March 15, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 71. The Duration in Office of the Executive
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, March 18, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, March 19, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Friday, March 21, 1788.
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, March 25, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 75. The Treaty-Making Power of the Executive
For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, March 26, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 76. The Appointing Power of the Executive
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, April 1, 1788.
From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, April 2, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 78. The Judiciary Department
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 79. The Judiciary Continued
From MCLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 80. The Powers of the Judiciary
From McLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788.
From McLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788.
FEDERALIST No. 82. The Judiciary Continued.
From McLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 83. The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury
From MCLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788
From McLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788
FEDERALIST No. 85. Concluding Remarks
From MCLEAN's Edition, New York. Wednesday, May 28, 1788