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4 Jan 2002 · In the McLean description begins The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes (New York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. McLean, 1788). description ends edition this essay is numbered 62, in the newspapers it is numbered 61.
- The Federalist Number 62, [27 February] 1788 - Founders Online
The term of nine years appears to be a prudent mediocrity...
- The Federalist Number 62, [27 February] 1788 - Founders Online
Federalist No. 62 is an essay written by James Madison as the sixty-second of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
10 Jan 2002 · The term of nine years appears to be a prudent mediocrity between a total exclusion of adopted citizens, whose merit and talents may claim a share in the public confidence; and an indiscriminate and hasty admission of them, which might create a channel for foreign influence on the national councils. II.
25 Apr 2024 · The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.
FEDERALIST No. 62. The Senate. For the Independent Journal. Wednesday, February 27, 1788. MADISON. To the People of the State of New York: HAVING examined the constitution of the House of Representatives, and answered such of the objections against it as seemed to merit notice, I enter next on the examination of the Senate.
I. The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age and a longer period of citizenship. A senator must be thirty years of age at least; as a representative must be twenty-five. And the former must have been a citizen nine years; as seven years are required for the latter.
James Madison, The Federalist No. 62 (1787)1 As The Federalist explained it, the Constitution created a system of checks and balances among multiple institutions while also placing different powers where they could be best used in the new government.
