FEDERALIST No.6 Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States

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 foreign nations. I shall now proceed to delineate dangers of a different and， perhaps， still more alarming kind—those which will in all probability flow from dissensions between the States themselves and from domestic factions and convulsions. These have been already in some instances slightly anticipated; but they deserve a more particular and more full investigation.

A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that if these States should either be wholly disunited， or only united in partial confederacies， the subdivisions into wh ......     （共11890字）    [阅读本文]>>