The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 22 · paragraph 2
In addition to the defects already enumerated in the existing federal system, there are others of not less importance, which concur in rendering it altogether unfit for the administration of the affairs of the Union.Read in context ›
Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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