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Contents.
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| a. double sets of revenue officers, | No. XXXIV. | 228 |
| b. "duplication of the popular burdens by double taxations," | 229 | |
| c. "the frightful forms of odious and oppressive poll-taxes," | 229 | |
| 2. in "the power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion," | XXXV. | 231 |
| A. uniformity in its organization and discipline is desirable, | 231 | |
| B. that uniformity is attainable only by confiding the regulation of the militia to the Fœderal authorities, | 231 | |
| C. the weakness of those who oppose the delegation of this authority to the Fœderal authorities, | 232 | |
| D. objection, that no provision has been made for calling out the posse comitatus, to assist the Fœderal magistrate, considered, | 232 | |
| E. objection, that danger may be apprehended from the delegation of such an authority, considered, | 233 | |
| a. the project for a militia establishment which "Publius" approved, | 233 | |
| b. the necessity for a military establishment would, thereby, be diminished, | 235 | |
| c. the pretence of danger from a disciplined militia ridiculed, | 235 | |
| d. the authority absolutely retained by the States, to appoint the officers of the militia, a sufficient safeguard, | 235 | |
| F. objection, based on the authority to order the militia into distant States, considered, | 236 | |
| V. "THE CONFORMITY OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION TO THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT," | XXXVI. | 238 |
| 1. introductory remarks, | 238 | |
| A. difficulty of investigating public measures with moderation and candor, | 239 | |
| B. the manner in which the proposed Constitution has been discussed, considered, | 239 | |
| a. the predetermined friend of the new system may be upright, | 240 | |
| b the predetermined opponent "cannot be upright and must be culpable," | 240 | |
| C. The Fœderalist not addressed either to predetermined enemies or friends of the measure, but to those who desire the happiness of their country, | 240 | |
| D. in considering the plan allowances must be made for the difficulties, inherent in the very nature of the undertaking, which the Convention experienced, | 240 | |
| a. the novelty of the undertaking, | 240 | |
| b. the difficulty of "combining the requisite stability and en- |
