Federalist_No._17
Federalist No. 17
Federalist Paper by Alexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 17 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventeenth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The Independent Journal (New York) on December 5, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. No. 17 addresses the insufficiencies of the Articles of Confederation to satisfactorily govern the United States; it is the third of six essays on this topic. It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union".