Federalist No. 19

Federalist Paper by James Madison

Federalist No. 19
James Madison, author of Federalist No. 19
Author	James Madison
Original title	The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Federalist
Publisher	The Independent Journal
Publication date	December 8, 1787
Media type	Newspaper
Preceded by	Federalist No. 18
Followed by	Federalist No. 20

Federalist No. 19 is an essay by James Madison, the nineteenth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The Independent Journal (New York) on December 8, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. No. 19 addresses the failures of the Articles of Confederation to satisfactorily govern the United States; it is the fifth of six essays on this topic. It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union". Contemporary comparisons are made with "the Germanic body" (the Kingdom of Germany), a community of sovereigns that support a feeble and precarious union; Poland, unfit for self-government and self-defense; and Switzerland, in practice a severed league due to differences of religion.