Read this excerpt from Federalist Paper No. 1 and answer the question that follows. Federalist Papers: No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal Author: Alexander Hamilton after an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind. Based on this quote from the excerpt, with which of these statements would Hamilton agree

In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton argued that the decentralization of power that existed under the Articles of Confederation prevented the new nation from becoming strong enough to compete on the world stage.

Hamilton outlines key concepts which are;

1. The utility of the Union to prosperity.

2. The insufficiency of the existing confederation to preserve the Union.

3. The necessity of a government as powerful as that proposed, to meet this object.