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| B. the impotency of the army in Great Britain, | No. VIII. | 46 |
| d. the general subject discussed, and the value of the Union enforced, | 47 | |
| 4. in affording a barrier to domestic faction and insurrection, | IX. | 48 |
| A. liability of republics to experience these troubles, | 48 | |
| B. they afford arguments for the advocates of despotism, | 49 | |
| C. the utility of a confederacy to guard against these troubles, | 50 | |
| a. resorted to in other ages and countries, | 50 | |
| b. approved by most authors on the subject of politics, | 50 | |
| a. Montesquieu's sentiments concerning extended territories, under republican governments, misrepresented by the Anti-fœderalists, | 50 | |
| b. his views on a confederate republic, | 51 | |
| c. distinction between a confederacy and a consolidation of the States discussed, | 53 | |
| a. what a confederacy is said to be, | 53 | |
| b. what a confederacy really is, | 53 | |
| A. the proposed Constitution a confederate republican form of government, | 54 | |
| B. the Lycian Confederacy a confederate republic, | 54 | |
| D. the propensity of popular governments to faction, | X. | 55 |
| E. the United States liable to the same result, | 55 | |
| F. what constitutes "a faction," | 56 | |
| G. in what way its mischief may be cured, | 56 | |
| a. by removing its causes, | 56 | |
| a. in the destruction of the liberty of the People, | 56 | |
| b. by causing every citizen to possess the same opinions, passions, and interests, | 56 | |
| c. the first unwise, the second impracticable, | 56 | |
| b. by controlling its effects, | 56 | |
| a. the nature and purposes of "factions," | 57 | |
| b. when the faction is a minority, "by regular vote," | 59 | |
| c. when the faction is a majority, | 59 | |
| A. by dividing the prevailing influences, | 60 | |
| B. by preventing the concentration of those influences, | 60 | |
| H. the advantage of a representative government over a democracy in curing the mischiefs of faction, | 60 | |
| I. the advantages of an extended republic over a small one, in like cases, | 62 | |
| 5. in their commercial relations with foreign nations, | XI. | 64 |
| A. the growing commerce of America has excited the jealousy of foreign powers, | 65 | |
| B. the necessity of uniformity of action in America in order to secure the benefits arising from its own markets, | 65 | |
| C. the establishment of a Fœderal navy another resource for commanding the respect of foreign nations, | 67 |
