The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in the Year 1788 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in the Year 1788

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new constitution will have to encounter, may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every state to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument and consequence of the oflices they held under the state the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer Prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire Into several partial confederacies, than from its union nu. Der one government.

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