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Federalist No. 19
My primary text
FEDERALIST No. 19.
The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union)
Saturday, December 8, 1787
MADISON, with HAMILTON
To the People of the State...
Quotes: 14 May 2026
Nervous States
William Davies
The promise of expertise, first made in the seventeenth century, is to provide us with a version of reality that we can all agree on. The promise of digital computing, by contrast, is to maximize sensitivity...
Federalist No. 18
FEDERALIST No. 18.
The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union)
Friday, December 7, 1787
JAMES MADISON [With the Assistance of Alexander Hamilton]
To the People...
Quotes: 12 May 2026
Time and Narrative, Volume 1
Paul Ricoeur
[The] illusion that the historical fact exists in some latent state in the documents and that the historian is a parasite on the historical equation. Against this methodological illusion it has to...
Federalist No. 17
The most famous contemporary portrayal of Hamilton
FEDERALIST No. 17.
The Same Subject Continued (The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union)
Wednesday, December 5, 1787
HAMILTON
To the...
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I’m a retired attorney & counselor. I received my eduction from the U of Iowa. I’m an Iowa native. My wife & I lived in India, China, and Romania between 2012 & 2018.
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