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| E. "the want of a power to regulate commerce," | No. XXII. | 139 |
| a. it operates as a bar to the formation of commercial treaties, | 139 | |
| b. it has given occasion for dissatisfaction between the States, | 139 | |
| F. the raising of troops by quotas, | 140 | |
| a. it produces great expense in raising troops, | 140 | |
| b. it is not conducive to a vigorous system of defence, | 140 | |
| c. it is unequal in the burden it imposes on the several States, | 141 | |
| G. the right of equal suffrage among the States, in the Congress, | 141 | |
| a. arising from the inequality of weight among the States, | 142 | |
| a. objection that sovereigns are equal, answered, | 142 | |
| b. objection that "a majority of the States will be a majority of confederated America," answered, | 142 | |
| c. objection that two thirds of the States, in approval, are necessary to the most important acts, | 142 | |
| A. the mischief which is incident to the last-named rule, | 143 | |
| B. the danger from foreign corruption which it imposes, | 144 | |
| a. republics particularly exposed to this evil, | 145 | |
| b. instances when this evil has prevailed, | 146 | |
| i. the deputies of the United Provinces, | 146 | |
| ii. the authorities in Sweden, | 146 | |
| H. "the want of a judiciary power," | 146 | |
| a. to expound and define the true meaning and operation of the laws, | 146 | |
| b. to ascertain the true import of treaties with foreign nations, | 146 | |
| c. to secure uniformity in the decision of the judges, | 147 | |
| I. "the organization of Congress utterly improper for the exercise of those powers which are necessary to a Fœderal Union, | 148 | |
| J. the existing Fœderal system never had a ratification by the People, | 149 | |
| IV. "THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AT LEAST EQUALLY ENERGETIC WITH THE ONE PROPOSED, TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT" [the preservation of the Union], | XXIII. | 150 |
| 1. concerning "the objects to be provided for by the Fœderal government," | 150 | |
| A. "the common defence of the members," | 150 | |
| a. "the authorities essential to the care of the common defence," | 150 | |
| a. "to raise armies," | 150 | |
| b. "to build and equip fleets," | 150 | |
| c. "to prescribe rules for the government of both" the armies and the fleets, | 150 | |
| d. "to direct their operations," | 150 | |
| e. "to provide for their support," | 150 |
