...thus [feeis] 1 an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts It [combined cannot fall to find] in the united mass of means and efforts [**] greater strength, greater resource, proportionally greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by...

...unless they could forge an indissoluble community of interest as one nation: "Any other tenure . . . whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connexion with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious." In September 1 784, six months...

...his Farewell Address, drafted by Hamilton, George Washington made a different but related argument. "While, then, every part of our country thus feels...proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value,...