THE

FEDERALIST:

A COMMENTARY

ON THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

A Collection of Essays

BY

ALEXANDER HAMILTON,

JAY, AND MADISON.

ALSO,

THE CONTINENTALIST, AND OTHER PAPERS,

BY

HAMILTON.

EDITED BY

JOHN C. HAMILTON,

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES."

VOL. I.

UML

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

JOHN C. HAMILTON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

One hundred copies on large paper, printed for E. FRENCH,

126 Nassau Street, New York.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

HISTORICAL NOTICE....

Resolution for a General Convention of the States, passed by the

Legislature of New York, Sunday, July 21, 1782......

Hamilton to Governor Clinton, Philadelphia, May 14, 1783..........

Resolution for a General Convention, 1783..................

ix

1

3

4

Annapolis Convention, Address of, September 14, 1786 ................

Speech on the Impost Grant...............................

8

11

Resolution for an Act by Congress Recommending the Holding a

Convention, February 17, 1787......................................

25

.........

Resolution for the Appointment by New York of Delegates to tho

General Convention, February 26, 1787.......

25

Articles of Confederation..........

26

Hamilton's First Plan of Government.........

31

The Federal Constitution, as agreed upon by the Convention, Sep-

tember 17, 1787.............

39

NUMBER

I. Introduction .....

49

II. Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence...... 54

VI. Concerning Dangers from War between the States............ 76

VII. The Subject continued, and Particular Causes Enumerated 83

VIII. The Effects of Internal War in Producing Standing Armies,

and other Institutions unfriendly to Liberty...............................

IX. The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic

Faction and Insurrection.......

X. The same Subject continued.........

90

..... 97

104

113

iii

XI. The Utility of the Union in respect to Commerce and a

Navy.........

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