Federalist No. 11 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...

, the eleventh of the Federalist Papers

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. It was published on November 24, 1787 under the pseudonym

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 Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Part of the initial block of essays devoted to explicating the virtues of the Union, No. 11 discusses the benefits of the Union in the field of commercial and military naval relations. It is titled, "The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy."

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