But these precautions, great as they are, are not the
only ones which the plan of the convention has provided in favor of the
public security. In the only instances in which the abuse of the
executive authority was materially to be feared, the Chief Magistrate of
the United States would, by that plan, be subjected to the control of a
branch of the legislative body. What more could be desired by an
enlightened and reasonable people?
PUBLIUS
E1. These two alternate endings of this sentence appear in different
editions.
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FEDERALIST No. 78
The Judiciary Department
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.
Wednesday, May 28, 1788
HAMILTON
To the People of the State of New York:
WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the
proposed government.
In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and
necessity of a federal judicature have been clearly pointed out. It is
the less necessary to recapitulate the considerations there urged, as
the propriety of the institution in the abstract is not disputed; the
only questions which have been raised being relative to the manner of
constituting it, and to its extent.
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