Federalist No. 61 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 sixty-first of the Federalist Papers

Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788...

. It was published on February 26, 1788 under the pseudonym

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 Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This is the last of three papers discussing the power of Congress over the election of its own members. It is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning the Power of Congress to Regulate the Election of Members."

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