In the penultimate paper of the series, Hamilton addresses a primary concern of many Anti-Federalists: the absence of a Bill of Rights from the proposed Constitution. Some of these deficiencies include insufficient power of the central government to enforce its laws, weak relations between individuals and the central government, and the inability for the central government to raise troops for the common defense. In the papers below, Hamilton explains in detail the many problems of the arrangement of states under the Articles of Confederation. 9, Hamilton references the work of Montesquieu and the unique ability of confederate republics in preventing factions from inconveniencing the whole society. As Publius, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay argued the benefits of the newly proposed Constitution and the many insufficiencies of the Articles of Confederation. Alexander Hamilton wrote 51 of the 85 Federalist Papers.
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