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Federalist 26

If you had asked educated Americans during the Constitutional period when America was “founded,” they likely would have answered “1688.”

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What Has Been

Given her painful loss to Donald Trump, surely the most unfortunate of Kamala Harris’ verbal tics was her frequent celebration of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

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Federalist 25

Last week, in discussing Federalist #24, I rehearsed in some detail some of the antifederalist arguments concerning a standing army, the main subject of Hamilton’s essays 24-29.

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Are Students Reading?

College students today – even students at elite colleges such as the Ivy Leagues – are not equipped to read full books, as Rose Horowitch’s recent Atlantic essay “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” revealed.

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Federalist 24

The next six Federalist essays (24-29), all written by Hamilton, deal with one of the most controversial powers in the Constitution: the ability to create a standing army, which, the critics claimed, posed an essential and enduring threat to liberty.

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Federalist 22

In Federalist 22 Hamilton reviews and repeats some of his earlier arguments concerning commerce and the need for a central authority that regulates and sets uniform standards.

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Federalist 21

After Madison’s digression into history in the previous three papers, Hamilton returns his attention in Federalist 21 to what he regards as the greatest flaws of the government under the Articles of Confederation…

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