FEDERALIST No.17 The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Prese

To the People of the State of New York：

AN OBJECTION of a nature different from that which has been stated and answered in my last address may perhaps be likewise urged against the principle of legislation for the individual citizens of America. It may be said that it would tend to render the government of the Union too powerful， and to enable it to absorb those residuary authorities， which it might be judged proper to leave with the States for local purposes. Allowing the utmost latitude to the love of power which any reasonable man can require， I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons intrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of t ......     （共8079字）    [阅读本文]>>