Mark’s Reviews > The federalist; a collection of essays by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, interpreting the Constitution of the United States as agreed upon by the Federal convention, September 17, 1787 > Status Update

I have fallen back on reading serially and finished #24, wherein Publius argues ardently the need for a paid national military to complement the state militias and assure the national defense against future antagonistic incursion by neighboring avaricious powers on all sides: Maine to Georgia.

I now drop back to my original reading plan at #23 (p. 123)

#68 pp. 411-417. Hamilton masterfully compares and contrasts the authority of the proposed President with that of the Governor of New York and of the King of Great Britain, showing the first to lie at a safe mid-point between the two latter officials.

Completed #14 regarding the prudence and advantage of establishing a perpetual union. Very well argued! History has demonstrated the validity of every argument and has invalidated none. [The U.S. Constitution has become the model of government to which many nations throughout the world have since turned, despite its novel construction unprecidented in known history.]

#10:Madison
"Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be

I read the next designated, #9 Topic: pros and cons of unity and confederation vs. mutual antagonism over petty irritations.

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Note on Text "by common consent of learned opinion, the following numbers are the cream of the eighty-five papers: 1,2,6,9,10,14,15,16,23,37,3,47,48,49,51,62,63, 70,78,84,85 (ten by Hamilton, ten by Madison, one by Jay). C.R." [Clinton Rossiter]
I have decided that my first tour through this material will follow these high points, and progress recorded accordingly. Later, I might return.

read #1, #2; listened #6, #7