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...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...

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...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the north- ern hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Eu... ...e it might and probably would happen that the foreign nation with whom the southern confederacy might be at war would be the one with whom the norther... ...ities of their representatives have, upon various occasions, dragged their monarchs into war, or continued them in it, contrary to their inclinations,... ...ss each some peculiar advantage for this essential establishment. The more southern States furnish in greater abundance certain kinds of naval stores—... ...y fraud, has, in different de- grees, extended her dominion over them all. Africa, Asia, and America, have successively felt her domination. The super... ...by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the o...