The word drives me crazy. Liberals love it, but only in a single context. When it is proposed in any other area, they are very much opposed to choice. Where liberals love choice: Whether or not you’d like to murder your unborn children. Where liberals hate choice: Where to send your kids to school. How [...]

The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy For the Independent Journal. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: THE importance of the Union, in a commercial light, is one of those points about which there is least room to entertain a difference of opinion, and [...]

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The Same Subject Continued (The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection) From the New York Packet. Friday, November 23, 1787. James Madison To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break [...]

The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection For the Independent Journal. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read [...]

The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States From the New York Packet. Tuesday, November 20, 1787. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of [...]

The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States) For the Independent Journal. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: IT IS sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducements could the States have, if disunited, to make war upon each other? It would be a full [...]

Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States For the Independent Journal. Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of [...]

The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal. John Jay To the People of the State of New York: QUEEN ANNE, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the UNION then forming between England and Scotland, [...]

The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) For the Independent Journal. John 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 [...]