(December 22, 1787) The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered For the Independent...

Friday, December 21, 1787. The Same Subject Continued: The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered From the New York...

December 19,1787 The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton To...

Tuesday, December 18, 1787. The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservation of the Union From the New...

Friday, December 14, 1787. The Same Subject Continued: Other Defects of the Present Confederation From the New York Packet Author:...

December 12, 1787 Other Defects of the Present Confederation For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton To the People of the...

(March 20, 1788) (Continued. ) I said in my last number, that the supreme court under this constitution would be exalted above all other...

Part 1 (February 28, 1788) The second paragraph of sect. 2d. art. 3, is in these words: "In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public...

(February 21, 1788) Having in the two preceding numbers, examined the nature and tendency of the judicial power, as it respects the...

Part 1 (February 7, 1788) In my last, I shewed, that the judicial power of the United States under the first clause of the second section...

(January 31, 1788) The nature and extent of the judicial power of the United States, proposed to be granted by this constitution, claims...

The New York Journal, April 10, 1788. When great and extraordinary powers are vested in any man, or body of men, which in their exercise,...

(January 24, 1788) To the PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK. The liberties of a people are in danger from a large standing army, not only...

(June 15, 1789) The next powers vested by this constitution in the general government, which we shall consider, are those, which...

(June 12, 1789) The result of our reasoning in the two preceeding numbers is this, that in a confederated government, where the powers...

(December 27, 1787) It is an important questions, whether the general government of the United States should be so framed, as to absorb...

(December 13, 1787) To the PEOPLE of the State of NEW-YORK. It was intended in this Number to have prosecuted the enquiry into the...

(November 29, 1787) To the PEOPLE of the State of NEW-YORK. There can be no free government where the people are not possessed of the...

(January 17, 1788) The design of civil government is to protect the rights and promote the happiness of the people. For this end, rulers...

(November 15, 1787) To the CITIZENS of the STATE of NEW-YORK. In the investigation of the constitution, under your consideration, great...