Federalist No. 24

Federalist No. 24 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-fourth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 19, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled, "The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered."

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