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This week, Morgan Zegers continues the conversation about common defense with Hamilton's Federalist Paper No. 25. The Anti-federalists feared the unlimited power a federal government would have with a standing army and instead felt that each state should provide for its own defense.

In this same subject continued, Hamilton resumes making a case for the Federalist view, expressing concern for the inner conflict that could occur if each state had an army, and the disproportionate burden on more geographically vulnerable states.

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Morgan Zegers is joined by co-host Connor Clegg to discuss Hamilton's "The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered." Federalist Paper No. 24 directly argues against the anti-federalists, who feared the federal government would have too much power, inevitably turning against their own people. 

In particular, the anti-federalist's main concern was the federalist's desire for a large standing army. While the federalists felt this would be necessary to ensure defense from foreign invaders, the anti-federalists feared oppressive centralized power. 

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Connor Clegg joins Morgan Zegers to evaluate Federalist Paper No. 23, written by Hamilton. Titled “The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to Preservation of the Union,” Hamilton expresses the need for the federal government to have unrestricted power to provide for the common defense.

The founders believed that the three branches of government, with their checks and balances in place, would allow it to effectively protect the nation while simultaneously restricting its ability to repress the people. 

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Morgan Zegers and Connor Clegg discuss Hamilton's Federalist Paper No. 22, continuing the conversation about the weaknesses of the founding fathers' original form of government and the pressing need for reform. 

Hamilton argues that the country at the time was too unstable and inconsistent to have prosperous commerce both internally and internationally. Each state set its own expectations, and people were motivated by self-interest instead of national interest, leaving America vulnerable to foreign corruption. 

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On today's episode, Connor Clegg joins Morgan Zegers to wrap up the conversation about the inadequacies of The Articles of Confederation. After providing several former and current examples of failed or insufficient confederacies, Federalist Paper No. 21 dives into the weaknesses of the founding fathers' original form of government.

Hamilton stresses that for a country to reach the best solution, the leaders must have a deep understanding of the common man's problems. Morgan and Connor discuss how the founders accomplished this by evaluating the past and present issues they faced. 

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Morgan Zegers discusses Federalist Paper No. 20, “The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union.” In the last of this series of papers, Hamilton and Madison continue to compare the failures of previous confederacies by examining The United Netherlands. 

At the time, The United Netherlands was made up of small independent regions of aristocracies that came together to form a sovereign state. Every province and city had to unanimously vote to enact any change, creating a slow and inefficient confederacy. This inefficiency rewarded corruption that led to its eventual collapse. 

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Morgan Zegers and Connor Clegg dissect Federalist Paper No. 19, written by Hamilton and Madison. Continuing to address the failures of the Articles of the Confederacy, this paper focuses on the current examples of confederacies, notably the Germanic body up to 1787.

Hamilton and Madison argued that although the Germanic body hadn't fallen, it was rather mediocre and lacked enough structure to allow prosperity. The founders' goal was to create a unified nation that was mindful of negative tendencies within human nature while still allowing for the potential of human excellence to prosper.

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In Federalist Paper No. 18, Madison and Hamilton came together to dissect the collapse of ancient Greece to find the vulnerabilities within a republic structure and then address how to avoid those in the future. Morgan Zegers and co-host Connor Clegg continue the conversation about the failures of the Articles of Confederation to protect and support a strong republic in the long term. 

Specifically, this week's show discusses how Athens' limited size hindered its ability to unify power throughout the country. As a result, Greece's larger, more powerful leagues could tyrannize the smaller, weaker leagues within their already fragile union. This authoritarian power was left unchecked by societal order, creating inner fractures that Rome viewed as an opportunity to seize power and conquer Greece.

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Morgan Zegers and co-host Connor Clegg are back to talk about Hamilton’s Federalist Paper No. 17, an optimistic and arguably naive perspective from the Federalists.

“The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union,” argues that the federal government would never be interested in encroaching on the rights of the states or expanding federal power beyond their limited jurisdiction of commerce, finance, negotiation, and war. 

Morgan and Connor disagree with Hamilton and express that the federal government has an immense incentive to overstep and infringe on the rights of local jurisdictions.

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This week, Morgan Zegers is continuing the conversation about the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation in Federalist Paper No. 16.

The Articles of Confederation joined the states and defined their roles, whereas the Constitution united the people and their government. Morgan explains that it would almost be inevitable for delinquent states to rise up and join together to catalyze another civil war without the Constitution.

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