FEDERALIST No.15 The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union

To the People of the State of New York：

IN THE course of the preceding papers I have endeavored， my fellow-citizens， to place before you in a clear and convincing light the importance of Union to your political safety and happiness. I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed， should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together to be severed or dissolved by ambition or by avarice， by jealousy or by misrepresentation. In the sequel of the inquiry through which I propose to accompany you， the truths intended to be inculcated will receive further confirmation from facts and arguments hitherto unnoticed. If the road over which you will still have to pass should in some places appear to you tedious or irksome， you will r ......     （共15474字）    [阅读本文]>>