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historicaldocuments:fedpapers:federalist03 [2015/09/27 20:38] jmchenryhistoricaldocuments:fedpapers:federalist03 [2015/10/04 22:07] – ↷ Links adapted because of a move operation Oliver Wolcott
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 +[[historicaldocuments:fedpapers:index|Index to the Federalist Papers]]
 ====== FEDERALIST No. 3 ====== ====== FEDERALIST No. 3 ======
  
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 The number of wars which have happened or will happen in the world will always be found to be in proportion to the number and weight of the causes, whether **REAL** or **PRETENDED**, which **PROVOKE** or **INVITE** them. If this remark be just, it becomes useful to inquire whether so many JUST causes of war are likely to be given by **UNITED AMERICA** as by **DISUNITED** America; for if it should turn out that United America will probably give the fewest, then it will follow that in this respect the Union tends most to preserve the people in a state of peace with other nations. The number of wars which have happened or will happen in the world will always be found to be in proportion to the number and weight of the causes, whether **REAL** or **PRETENDED**, which **PROVOKE** or **INVITE** them. If this remark be just, it becomes useful to inquire whether so many JUST causes of war are likely to be given by **UNITED AMERICA** as by **DISUNITED** America; for if it should turn out that United America will probably give the fewest, then it will follow that in this respect the Union tends most to preserve the people in a state of peace with other nations.
  
-The **JUST** causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from direct violence. America has already formed treaties with no less than six foreign nations (*), and all of them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive commerce with Portugal, Spain, and Britain, and, with respect to the two latter, has, in addition, the circumstance of neighborhood to attend to.+The **JUST** causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from direct violence. America has already formed treaties with no less than six foreign nations, and all of them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive commerce with Portugal, Spain, and Britain, and, with respect to the two latter, has, in addition, the circumstance of neighborhood to attend to.
  
 It is of high importance to the peace of America that she observe the laws of nations towards all these powers, and to me it appears evident that this will be more perfectly and punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies. It is of high importance to the peace of America that she observe the laws of nations towards all these powers, and to me it appears evident that this will be more perfectly and punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies.
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 PUBLIUS. PUBLIUS.
  
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