The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

Year
1788
Field
Politics
Licence
Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
Source
gutenberg
Length
about 192,179 words in 166 sections

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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.

Contents

  1. THE FEDERALIST PAPERS · 21 words
  2. HAMILTON · 1,592 words
  3. PUBLIUS · 41 words
  4. JAY · 1,671 words
  5. PUBLIUS · 22 words
  6. JAY · 1,447 words
  7. PUBLIUS · 22 words
  8. JAY · 1,635 words
  9. PUBLIUS · 22 words
  10. JAY · 1,346 words
  11. PUBLIUS · 18 words
  12. HAMILTON · 2,138 words
  13. PUBLIUS · 112 words
  14. HAMILTON · 2,259 words
  15. PUBLIUS · 66 words
  16. HAMILTON · 1,994 words
  17. PUBLIUS · 84 words
  18. HAMILTON · 1,983 words
  19. PUBLIUS · 35 words
  20. MADISON · 3,004 words
  21. PUBLIUS · 24 words
  22. HAMILTON · 2,524 words
  23. HAMILTON · 2,149 words
  24. PUBLIUS · 33 words
  25. HAMILTON · 966 words
  26. PUBLIUS · 22 words
  27. MADISON · 2,146 words
  28. PUBLIUS · 21 words
  29. HAMILTON · 3,082 words
  30. PUBLIUS · 32 words
  31. HAMILTON · 2,041 words
  32. PUBLIUS · 25 words
  33. HAMILTON · 1,571 words
  34. PUBLIUS · 2,123 words
  35. PUBLIUS · 2,073 words
  36. PUBLIUS · 1,573 words
  37. PUBLIUS · 17 words
  38. HAMILTON · 2,000 words
  39. PUBLIUS · 22 words
  40. HAMILTON · 3,481 words
  41. PUBLIUS · 103 words
  42. HAMILTON · 1,802 words
  43. PUBLIUS · 20 words
  44. HAMILTON · 1,826 words
  45. PUBLIUS · 206 words
  46. HAMILTON · 1,990 words
  47. PUBLIUS · 25 words
  48. HAMILTON · 2,387 words
  49. PUBLIUS · 30 words
  50. HAMILTON · 1,425 words
  51. PUBLIUS · 60 words
  52. HAMILTON · 1,597 words
  53. PUBLIUS · 23 words
  54. HAMILTON · 2,238 words
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  57. PUBLIUS · 22 words
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  60. HAMILTON · 1,491 words
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  68. HAMILTON · 2,953 words
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  70. MADISON · 2,744 words
  71. MADISON · 3,324 words
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  75. MADISON · 3,022 words
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  77. MADISON · 3,556 words
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  107. MADISON · 1,639 words
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  109. MADISON · 2,211 words
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  111. MADISON · 2,091 words
  112. PUBLIUS · 23 words
  113. HAMILTON · 1,908 words
  114. PUBLIUS · 35 words
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  117. HAMILTON · 1,524 words
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  119. MADISON · 2,390 words
  120. PUBLIUS · 14 words
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  122. PUBLIUS · 16 words
  123. JAY · 2,313 words
  124. PUBLIUS · 18 words
  125. HAMILTON · 2,023 words
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  163. HAMILTON · 3,929 words
  164. PUBLIUS · 300 words
  165. HAMILTON · 2,665 words
  166. PUBLIUS · 47 words
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