...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...people. There have been, if I may so express it, almost as many popular as royal wars. The cries of the nation and the impor- tunities of their repres... ...T No. 11 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of Ne... ...ard us, in this respect, would arise from the estab- lishment of a federal navy. There can be no doubt that the continuance of the Union under an effi... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...ber of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of l... ...ates are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will... ...ways have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority. This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or ...

...Excerpt: 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 it...