The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton [354]
peace and order; as social value; see stability
Pennsylvania; constitution
people, American; character of; their confidence in good government; intelligence of; their partiality for local rather than national government; as ratifying agents of Constitution; their role in election of President; their role in government; seeAmerica, United States of
people, the; capacity for self-delusion; capacity for self-government; character; their consent the basis of government; their role in government; limits to this role; and judicial review; see classes, social; consent, democracy, republics
Petition of Right
piracy, laws concerning
Plato
plural executive, case against
Plutarch
Poland
politics, science of; axioms; progress of
poll taxes
Polybius
popular government; diseases of; novelty of; role of executive in; tendency toward tyranny; see assemblies, democracy, people, republics
population; future growth
postal power
power, political; abuse of; defined; importance to government; man’s love of; necessity that it be commensurate with ends
Presidency: assistance of; case for re-eligibility to; compared and contrasted with British Monarchy; election to; fears of opposition concerning; independence; limits on; probable character of occupants; provision for salary of; qualifications for; relations to Congress; responsibility to people; term of office; unity of; see executive power
Presidency, powers of; administration of; in making appointments; diplomatic; legislative (including veto); military; pardoning; see executive power
President, election of; limited role of Congress; role of people; see electoral college
Presidential electors; likely character of
press, freedom of
"privileges and immunities" clause
professional men
property; as cause of faction; as qualification for suffrage; of United States
prosperity; see wealth, national
prudence; as guide to decision; as political virtue
public good; as guiding star of Convention; as object of government; as standard of political decision; see happiness
public opinion; importance; and liberty; role
publicity, as force in government
purse, power of
reason; its role in public affairs
rebellion; see anarchy, disorder, instability
re-eligibility to Presidency, case for
religion; and liberty; situation of in America
removal power
representation; importance of; nature of; quality of
republicanism; characteristics of; guarantee of in Constitution
republics; defined; diseases and remedy; natural frugality; penchant for war; susceptibility to foreign corruption; tendency to disorder; viability for extended territory; see democracy, popular government
requisitions on States
responsibility, political
revenue; more easily raised by Union; necessity; see taxation
Revolution, American; costliness of; hand of God in; militia in; its services to mankind
revolution, right of
Rhode Island; constitution
rights; dangers to; of minority; natural; see bill of rights, liberty
Rome; dictatorship in; rotation in office
Scotland
security, as object of government
self-preservation, right of
Senate; character of; election to; necessity for; qualifications for, relation to House of Representatives, its role in appointments; its role in foreign affairs, its role in impeachments; State representation in; term; see Congress
separation of powers
separation of powers (cont.); analyzed; bulwark of liberty; in Constitution, Montesquieu’s observations on; in State constitutions; see checks and balances
Shays’ Rebellion
slave trade, barbarism of
slaves; apology for counting them in scheme of representation
smuggling
South (U.S.)
South Carolina, constitution
sovereignty; nature of; of States
Spain
stability, political; importance of to liberty; as social value; see peace and orderstanding armies, fear of; origin of tradition
State governments, ability to resist national government, concurrent authority with national government; courts, imperfect nature of even the best, inadequacy for common defense, natural tendency to encroach on national government; popular