Hamilton asks, how do we avoid being attacked by our enemies, and how do we avoid becoming slaves to each other?

Steven and David look at Federalist 12, where Thomas Jefferson suggests that if America moves from farm work to manufacturing, we risk becoming slaves. It was a weird time.

The Value of Union to Commerce and the Advantages of a Navy - Alexander Hamilton

James Madison - The Size and Variety of the Union as a Check on Faction

We continue our journey. We are hope, despite the times.

Steven and David offer you what, back in the eighties, we would have called "a very special episode."

Alexander Hamilton - Union as a Barrier to Faction and Insurrection

Alexander Hamilton draws on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in a battle of wits against the Jeffersonian Anti-Federalists

Hamilton looks to the western territories, and becomes convinced the thing that will really save us is a national debt.

Alexander Hamilton returns, and has a bevy of antique quotations to bring to bear. Steven and David wrestle with the mighty torrent of prose, and find their way through the labyrinth.

In this, John Jay's last contribution for a while, he shows us he is thinking about the future, and the long-term effects of this new form of government. Steven and David also take a delightful detour into 'Originalism,' and the ideas of Edmund Burke.