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The Federalist Papers - Number 7
...nts of a federal constitution, we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were remov ...lated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in full force. We have a vast tract of unsettled territory within the bound

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The Federalist Papers - Number 8
...to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend s ...iderable. The history of war, in that quarter of the globe, is no longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken;

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The Federalist Papers - Number 9
...s with a transient and fleeting brilliancy, they at the same time admonish us to lament that the vices of government should pervert the direction and tar {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 11
...ally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and of depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms. This would a ...hange in the system of Britain, because she could prosecute her trade with us through the medium of the Dutch, who would be her immediate customers and p

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The Federalist Papers - Number 12
...e remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so valuable a resource must be best adapted to our po ...ould have extensive connections of foreign trade. The passage from them to us, in a few hours, or in a single night, as between the coasts of France and

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The Federalist Papers - Number 13
...trengthened by another supposition, more probable than that which presents us with three confederacies as the alternative to a general Union. If we atten [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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The Federalist Papers - Number 14
...we may form a juster estimate with regard to this interesting subject, let us resort to the actual dimensions of the Union. The limits, as fixed by the t ...wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rendering us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness. Bu

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The Federalist Papers - Number 15
...our national system, and that something is necessary to be done to rescue us from impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are no longer o ...achments? The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us. Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. Is a vi

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The Federalist Papers - Number 16
...at of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, a ...o inquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end. If there should not be a large

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The Federalist Papers - Number 17
...lly possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutio {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 18
...deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt. This piece of history proves at once the inefficiency of the union, the ambition and jealousy of ...as it is called, was another society of Grecian republics, which supplies us with valuable instruction.

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The Federalist Papers - Number 19
The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the p {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 20
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} ...llow-citizens, for one moment, over this melancholy and monitory lesson of history; and with the tear that drops for the calamities brought on mankind by thei

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The Federalist Papers - Number 21
...the domestic concerns of the members. A scruple of this kind would deprive us of one of the principal advantages to be expected from union, and can only {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 22
...might enjoy every advantage they desired in our markets, without granting us any return but such as their momentary convenience might suggest. It is not ...s country might never permit this description to be strictly applicable to us, yet we may reasonably expect, from the gradual conflicts of State regulati

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The Federalist Papers - Number 23
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} ...ties which are indispensible to their proper and efficient management. Let us not attempt to reconcile contradictions, but firmly embrace a rational alte

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The Federalist Papers - Number 24
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}} ...ious links of political connection. These circumstances combined, admonish us not to be too sanguine in considering ourselves as entirely out of the reac

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The Federalist Papers - Number 25
...r own experience, forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion. The steady operations of war against {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 26
...too high, or too rigid, the doctrines they teach are calculated to induce us to depress or to relax it, by expedients which, upon other occasions, have ...nts, are of the number of these instances. The principles which had taught us to be jealous of the power of an hereditary monarch were by an injudicious

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