The Same Subject Continued (The Total Number of the House of Representatives)         For the Independent Journal. Saturday, February 16, 1788.         MADISON         To the People of the State of New York:         THE SECOND charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be too small to possess a due knowledge of the...Learn More

        The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)         From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 2, 1788.         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         ALTHOUGH I am of opinion that there would be no real danger of the consequences which seem to be apprehended to the State...Learn More

        The Senate         For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, February 27, 1788         MADISON         To the People of the State of New York:         HAVING examined the constitution of the House of Representatives, and answered such of the objections against it as seemed to merit notice, I enter next on the examination of the Senate. The...Learn More

        The Senate Continued         For the Independent Journal. Saturday, March 1, 1788         MADISON         To the People of the State of New York:         A FIFTH desideratum, illustrating the utility of a senate, is the want of a due sense of national character. Without a select and stable member of the government, the esteem of foreign...Learn More

        The Powers of the Senate         From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, March 5, 1788.         JAY         To the People of the State of New York:         IT IS a just and not a new observation, that enemies to particular persons, and opponents to particular measures, seldom confine their censures to such things only in either as are...Learn More

        The Apportionment of Members Among the States         From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 12, 1788.         MADISON         To the People of the State of New York:         THE next view which I shall take of the House of Representatives relates to the appointment of its members to the several States which is to be determined by...Learn More

        The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)         From The Independent Journal. Wednesday, January 2, 1788.         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         THE residue of the argument against the provisions of the Constitution in respect to taxation is ingrafted upon the following...Learn More

        The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)         For the Independent Journal. Saturday, January 5, 1788         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         BEFORE we proceed to examine any other objections to an indefinite power of taxation in the Union, I shall make one general remark;...Learn More

        The Powers of the Senate Continued         From the New York Packet. Friday, March 7, 1788.         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         THE remaining powers which the plan of the convention allots to the Senate, in a distinct capacity, are comprised in their participation with the executive in the appointment...Learn More

        The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)         From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 1, 1788.         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         IN DISQUISITIONS of every kind, there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend....Learn More

        The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)         From The Independent Journal. Saturday, January 5, 1788.         HAMILTON         To the People of the State of New York:         I FLATTER myself it has been clearly shown in my last number that the particular States, under the proposed Constitution, would...Learn More

        The Alleged Tendency of the New Plan to Elevate the Few at the Expense of the Many Considered in Connection with Representation.         From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 19, 1788.         MADISON         To the People of the State of New York:         THE THIRD charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be...Learn More