About “The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered”
The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered is Federalist No. 42, an essay by James Madison and the forty-second of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on January 22, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. It continues a theme started in Federalist No. 41 and is the second most-cited Federalist Paper. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)