Hamilton implored the 13 newly formed states of the United States on the need for a strong federal government; he feared the serious dangers which awaited this newly constituted body of States. “One must be very advanced in utopian speculations to seriously doubt that, if these States were either entirely disunited, or only united in partial confederations, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent struggles with each other. To presume the absence of motives for such struggles as an argument against their existence would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive and rapacious. To seek the maintenance of harmony between a certain number of independent and unrelated sovereignties in the same neighborhood would be to misunderstand the uniform course of human events and to defy the accumulated experience of centuries” (Hamilton). Hamilton recalls the great English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes and the contract of social theory for a clear understanding of the issues. Social contract theory is the basis of the Declaration of Independence and guidelines...