About “The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared”
Federalist No. 46 is an essay written by James Madison, the forty-sixth in the series of The Federalist Papers. It was first published on January 29, 1788, in The New York Packet. The essay was written under the pseudonym Publius, which was used for all the Federalist Papers. The main topic of the essay is the comparison of the strength of the state and federal governments under the proposed United States Constitution. The title of the essay is "The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)