Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Well, it's the beginning of July, and that means it's time for our annual reading from the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander

Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.

Published is a series of tracks in 1788

to support the ratification of the United States Constitution.

Let's pick up where we left off. Federalist Paper No 17, The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union.

The same subject continued, written for the Independent journal by Alexander Hamilton.

To the people of the State of New York,

an objection of a nature different from that which has been stated and answered in my last address

may perhaps be likewise urged against the principle of legislation for the individual citizens of America.

It may be said that it would tend to render the government of the Union too powerful, and to enable it to absorb

those residual authorities, which it might be judged proper to leave with the states for local purposes.

Allowing the utmost latitude to the love of power which any reasonable man can require. I confess I am at a loss to discover what

temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the states

of the authorities of that description.

The regulation of the mere domestic police of a state appears to me to hold out

slender allurements to ambition. Commerce, Finance, negotiation, and war seem to comprehend all the objects which have charms

for minds governed by that passion.

And all the powers necessary to those objects ought in the first instance to be lodged in

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