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Federalist No. 20

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Federalist No. 20
James Madison, author of Federalist No. 20
AuthorJames Madison
Original titleThe Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Federalist
PublisherNew York Packet
Publication date
December 11, 1787
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeNewspaper
Preceded byFederalist No. 19 
Followed byFederalist No. 21 

Federalist No. 20 is an essay by James Madison, the twentieth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on December 11, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. No. 20 addresses the failures of the Articles of Confederation to satisfactorily govern the United States; it is the last of six essays on this topic. It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union".

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Parallels are drawn with the Dutch Republic system of Stadholdership.

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