FEDERALIST No.9 The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection

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 history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated， and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy. If they exhibit occasional calms， these only serve as short-lived contrasts to the furious storms that are to succeed. If now and then intervals of felicity open themselves to view， we behold them with a mixture of regret， arising from the refl ection that the pleasing scene ......     （共10370字）    [阅读本文]>>