FEDERALIST No.23 The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservation

To the People of the State of New York：

THE necessity of a Constitution， at least equally energetic with the one proposed， to the preservation of the Union， is the point at the examination of which we are now arrived.

This inquiry will naturally divide itself into three branches—the objects to be provided for by a federal government， the quantity of power necessary to the accomplishment of those objects， the persons upon whom that power ought to operate. Its distribution and organization will more properly claim our attention under the succeeding head.

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these—the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other na ......     （共8971字）    [阅读本文]>>