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5 March 1788

John JayKorrents 5 Mar 1788

From one piece The Federalist Papers (1787-1788) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Treaty negotiation sometimes requires perfect secrecy and immediate dispatch

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It seldom happens in the negotiation of treaties, of whatever nature, but that perfect SECRECY and immediate DESPATCH are sometimes requisite.

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Choosing officials through select bodies beats popular elections, where party zeal exploits the unwary

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This mode has, in such cases, vastly the advantage of elections by the people in their collective capacity, where the activity of party zeal, taking the advantage of the supineness, the ignorance, and the hopes and fears of the unwary and interested, often places men in office by the votes of a small proportion of the electors.

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10 November 1787

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Weakness and division at home invite danger from abroad, and union, strength and good government guard against it

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It was remarked in the preceding paper, that weakness and divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves.

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7 November 1787

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Nations generally go to war whenever they expect to gain by it

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It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.

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3 November 1787

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Providing for their safety is the first object of a wise and free people

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Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their SAFETY seems to be the first.

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31 October 1787

John JayKorrents 31 Oct 1787

From one piece The Federalist Papers (1787-1788) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The proposed Constitution deserves candid consideration, neither blind approval nor blind rejection

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Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only RECOMMENDED, not imposed, yet let it be remembered that it is neither recommended to BLIND approbation, nor to BLIND reprobation; but to that sedate and candid consideration which the magnitude and importance of the subject demand

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America was made to be one country for one united people, never split into rival sovereignties

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This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

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People must give up some natural rights to give government the powers it needs

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Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers.

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