The Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 35 summary

What happens

1. Hamilton argues that restricting national revenue to particular sources places unfair burdens on industries, states, and citizens.
2. He explains how excessive import duties encourage smuggling, distort industry, and sometimes consume merchants’ profits and capital.
3. He argues that importing and nonmanufacturing states bear unequal costs when import duties supply all national revenue.
4. He rejects the claim that every occupation needs its own members in the House of Representatives.
5. He presents merchants, landowners, and learned professionals as capable of understanding the interests of different social groups.
6. He grounds sound taxation in economic knowledge, familiarity with citizens, and representatives’ dependence on voters.

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