Introduction

This is a LibraVox recording of the Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 13 by Alexander Hamilton. The entire separation of the states into 13 unconnected sovereignty is a project too extravagant, and too replete with danger to have many advocates. According to this distribution, each confederacy would comprise an extent of territory larger than that of the kingdom of Great Britain. When we consider that the island of Britain nearly commensurate with each of the supposed confederacies contains about eight million of people, we shall see no reason to doubt that the like portion of power would be sufficient to perform the same task in a society far more numerous.