PUBLIUS has shown us in a clear light the utility, it might be said, the necessity of Union to the formation and support of a navy. There is one point of view however on which he has left the subject untouched-the tendency of this circumstance to the preservation of liberty.
Will force be necessary to repell foreign attacks, or to guard the national rights against the ambition of particular members? A navy will be a much safer as well as a more effectual engine for either purpose. If we have a respectable fleet there will be the less call on any account for an army. This idea is too plain to need enlargement. Thus the salutary guardianship of the Union appears on all sides to be the palladium of American liberty.
INDEX TO THE FEDERALIST.*
ACHEAN LEAGUE: 147, 161, 164, 291, 360.
ACHEANS: They abandoned the experiment of
plural prætors, 524.
AGRICULTURE: Its interests interwoven with
those of commerce, 121.
AMENDMENTS: Obligation under the Constitu-
tion, concerning them, 345.
AMERICAN SYSTEM: Idea of one, 120, 121.
AMPHICTYONIC COUNCIL, 158, 160, 291.
ANNAPOLIS Extract from the recommenda-
tion of the meeting at, in September 1786,
809.
ANNE, QUEEN: Extracts from her letter to the
Scotch Parliament, 71, 72. Appeals to the
People; Dangers and inconveniences at-
tending them, 389, 890; Objections to their
being periodically made, 898, 895.
ASPASIA, 7
ASSEMBLIES: Objections to numerous, 423, 446.
(See "House of Representatives.") After
a number of Representatives sufficient for
the purposes of safety, of local information,
and of diffusive sympathy with the whole
society, is secured, any addition to them is
injurious, 446.
ATHENS Archons of, 479.
ATTAINDER, Bills of: Provision of the Consti-
tution concerning them, 351.
BANKRUPTCY: (See "Constitution,") Provision
of the Constitution concerning it, 336.
BILLS OF CREDIT: Provision of the Constitu-
tion concerning them, 349.
BILLS OF RIGHTS: In their origin, stipulations
between kings and subjects, 627.
CAMBRAY, League of, 80.
CARTHAGE, Senate of, 477.
CATO: An opponent of the Constitution, cited,
505.
COALITION: The word used in a good sense, 443.
COMMERCE (See "Confederation," "Union,")
Examination of the opinion that its tend-
ency is pacific, 78, 81: A source of contention
between the separate States, and would be
among separate confederacies of them, 86;
Policy of prohibitory regulations in regard
to it, on the part of the U. States, 114, 115;
Intimacy between its interests and those
of agriculture, 121; Power under the Con-
stitution of regulating it, 332.
CONFEDERACIES: Inexpediency of dividing the
Union into three or four separate Con-
federacies. 69, 77; Probable number of sep-
arate Confederacies, in the event of dis-
union, 128, 130; Tendency of Confederacies
rather to anarchy among the members than
to tyranny in the head, 158, 178.
CONFEDERACY, of the States: Alleged charac-
teristic distinction between it and consoli-
dation, 101.
CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC: Defined, 101; Tend-
ency of the Federal principle to mod-
eration in Government, 162. (See "Mon-
tesquieu," "Constitution," " Republic.")
CONFEDERATION, The: Its insufficiency to the
preservation of the Union, 189; Picture of
the public distress under it, 189, 140; Its
great and radical vice, legislation for com.
munities instead of persons, 141. (See 197);
Difference between a league and a govern-
ment, 142, 143; Want of a sanction to its
laws, 178; State contributions by quotas,
a fundamental error in it, 180; Want of a
power to regulate commerce, another de-
fect in it, 184, 186; The nugatory power of
raising armies, another, 186; The right of
equal suffrage among the States, another,
187; Anti-republican character of the re-
quisition, in certain cases, of a vote exceed-
ing a majority, 188; Want of a Judiciary
power, a crowning defect of the Confedera-
tion, 191; The organization of Congress,
another; Perilons tendency of a single legis-
lative house, 192; Want of popular con-
sent to it, another defect in it, 193; It ac-
knowledges the necessity of strength in
the Federal power, 193; Impracticable
character of certain provisions under it,
298, 299; Necessary usurpations of Congress
under it, 298, 299; Answer to the question,
on what principle is it to be superseded,
without the unanimous consent of the par-
ties to it, 346.
CONGRESS: (See "Constitution," "States,"
Public Debt,") Extracts from the recom
mendatory Act of Congress, in February,
1787, 809, 810; Power of, under the Feder
al Constitution, over a District of Terri-
tory, not exceeding ten miles square, 888;
Its power concerning territory, &c., belong-
ing to the United States, 341.
The editor takes pleasure in acknowledging that he is indebted to the kindness of P. H. Kendall, Esq., a leading
member of the Washington Bar, and formerly a District Attorney of the United States, for permission to use this index
prepared by him for a former edition of this work. It is very slightly modified. Feb., 1864.
INDEX TO THE FEDERALIST.*
ACHEAN LEAGUE: 147, 161, 164, 291, 860.
ACHEANS: They abandoned the experiment of
plural prætors, 524.
AGRICULTURE: Its interests interwoven with
those of commerce, 121.
AMENDMENTS: Obligation under the Constitu-
tion, concerning them, 845.
AMERICAN SYSTEM: Idea of one, 120, 121.
AMPHICTYONIC COUNCIL, 158, 160, 291.
ANNAPOLIS: Extract from the recommenda-
tion of the meeting at, in September 1786,
809.
ANNE, QUEEN: Extracts from her letter to the
Scotch Parliament, 71, 72. Appeals to the
People; Dangers and inconveniences at-
tending them, 389, 890; Objections to their
being periodically made, 898, 395.
ASPASIA, 77.
ASSEMBLIES: Objections to numerous, 423, 446.
(See "House of Representatives.") After
a number of Representatives sufficient for
the purposes of safety, of local information,
and of diffusive sympathy with the whole
society, is secured, any addition to them is
injurious, 446.
ATHENS Archons of, 479.
ATTAINDER, Bills of: Provision of the Consti-
tution concerning them, 351.
BANKRUPTCY: (See "Constitution,") Provision
of the Constitution concerning it, 336.
BILLS OF CREDIT: Provision of the Constitu-
tion concerning them, 849.
BILLS OF RIGHTS: In their origin, stipulations
between kings and subjects, 627.
CAMBRAY, League of, 80.
CARTHAGE, Senate of, 477.
CATO: An opponent of the Constitution, cited,
505.
COALITION: The word used in a good sense, 443.
COMMERCE (See "Confederation," " "Union,")
Examination of the opinion that its tend-
ency is pacific, 78, 81: A source of contention
between the separate States, and would be
among separate confederacies of them, 86;
Policy of prohibitory regulations in regard
to it, on the part of the U. States, 114, 115;
Intimacy between its interests and those
of agriculture, 121; Power under the Con-
stitution of regulating it, 332.
CONFEDERACIES: Inexpediency of dividing the
Union into three or four separate Con-
federacies, 69, 77; Probable number of sep-
arate Confederacies, in the event of dis-
union, 128, 130; Tendency of Confederacies
rather to anarchy among the members than
to tyranny in the head, 153, 178.
CONFEDERACY, of the States: Alleged charac-
teristic distinction between it and consoli-
dation, 101.
CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC: Defined, 101; Tend-
ency of the Federal principle to mod-
eration in Government, 162. (See "Mon-
tesquieu," "Constitution," "Republic.")
CONFEDERATION, The: Its insufficiency to the
preservation of the Union, 189; Picture of
the public distress under it, 189, 140; Its
great and radical vice, legislation for com-
munities instead of persons, 141. (See 197);
Difference between a league and a govern-
ment, 142, 143; Want of a sanction to its
laws, 178; State contributions by quotas,
a fundamental error in it, 180; Want of a
power to regulate commerce, another de-
fect in it, 184, 186; The nugatory power of
raising armies, another, 186; The right of
equal suffrage among the States, another,
187; Anti-republican character of the re-
quisition, in certain cases, of a vote exceed-
ing a majority, 188; Want of a Judiciary
power, a crowning defect of the Confedera-
tion, 191; The organization of Congress,
another; Perilous tendency of a single legis-
lative house, 192; Want of popular con-
sent to it, another defect in it, 198; It ac-
knowledges the necessity of strength in
the Federal power, 198; Impracticable
character of certain provisions under it.
298, 299; Necessary usurpations of Congress
under it, 298, 299; Answer to the question,
on what principle is it to be superseded,
without the unanimous consent of the par-
ties to it, 346.
CONGRESS: (See "Constitution," "States,"
Public Debt,") Extracts from the recom-
mendatory Act of Congress, in February,
1787, 309, 310; Power of, under the Feder-
al Constitution, over a District of Terri-
tory, not exceeding ten miles square, 388;
Its power concerning territory, &c., belong.
ing to the United States, 841.
The editor takes pleasure In acknowledging that he is indebted to the kindness of P. H. Kendall, Esq., a leading
member of the Washington Bar, and formerly a District Attorney of the United States, for permission to use this index
prepared by him for a former edition of this work. It is very slightly modified. Feb., 1864.
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