The Federalist [Numbers 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71]

The Federalist

Federalist No.15 – The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union by Alexander Hamilton 12/1/1787

• Both the opponents and friends of the constitution agree that the present confederation is insufficient to preserve the union.

The Federalist [Numbers 1-10]

The Federalist [Numbers 1-10]

Federalist No.1 – General Introduction by Alexander Hamilton 10/27/1787

• After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, the states have been called upon to deliberate on a new constitution for the US.

The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

The Declaration of Independence

• When it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another, and to assume the power and station to which they are entitled by the laws of God and Nature, they ought to declare the causes which impel them to make that separation.