FEDERALIST No. 4. The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 7, 1787
JAY To the People of the State of New York: MY LAST paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people would be best secured by union against the danger it may be exposed to by JUST causes of war given to other nations; and those reasons show that such causes would not only
FEDERALIST No. 3. The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal. Saturday, November 3, 1787
JAY To the People of the State of New York: IT IS not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere for many years in an erroneous opinion respecting their interests. That consideration naturally tends to create great respect for the high
FEDERALIST No. 2. Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, October 31, 1787
JAY To the People of the State of New York: WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very
FEDERALIST No. 1. General Introduction For the Independent Journal. Saturday, October 27, 1787
ES: Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State