Note 1
THE FEDERALIST. No. I.
The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the new Constitution.
…that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of necessity resort to separate confederacies of distinct portions of the whole.[1] This doctrine will, in all probability, be gradually propagated, till it has votaries enough to countenance an open avowal of it. For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an ado…
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