Federalist No. 72

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Alexander Hamilton, author of Federalist No. 72
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Alexander Hamilton, author of Federalist No. 72

Federalist No. 72 (Federalist Number 72) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton and the seventy-second of the Federalist Papers. It was published on March 19, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Its title is, "The Same Subject Continued, and Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered", and it is the sixth in a series of 11 essays discussing the powers and limitations of the Executive branch.

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