The Federalist Papers : No. 10

From the New York Packet, Friday, November 23, 1787 James Madison Jr To the People of the State of New York: Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds […]

The Federalist Papers : No. 8

From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 20, 1787. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would […]