... private and public security holders. No one was better prepared to defend the Constitution than New Yorker, and federalist, Alexander Hamilton. In 1787 he worked with John Jay and James Madison to write series of 85 essays in support of the Constitution. Known as "The Federalist Papers," these remarkable essays proved ... writes, "The rapid soil erosion and soil exhaustion produced by slave-based agriculture condemned the institution of slavery to continuous expansion or collapse".10 Agriculturally, it is quite obvious that the institution of slavery would've had to expanded westward, ot...

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