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Federalist No. 6 argues that nations are predisposed to wage war against their neighbors as a natural effect of human nature. Hamilton counters the belief that republicanism and commerce prevent war by arguing that the leaders and citizens of a nation will act through passion over reason.
Jan 4, 2002 · The causes of hostility among nations are innumerable. There are some which have a general and almost constant operation upon the collective bodies of society: Of this description are the love of power or the desire of preeminence and dominion—the jealousy of power, or the desire of equality and safety.
HAMILTON. To the People of the State of New York: THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations.
Federalist No. 6 Excerpt: “A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that, if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other.
Federalist Number (No.) 6 (1787) is an essay by British-American politician Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. The full title of the essay is "Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States."
FEDERALIST No. 6. Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States. For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, November 14, 1787. HAMILTON. To the People of the State of New York:
Read the text of Federalist No 6 online with commentaries and connections. Written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the pseudonym “Publius” between October 1787 and May 1788, the Federalist Papers were a series of 85 essays published in New York newspapers to advance arguments supporting the ratification of the ...
