Mises Wire
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This passage is excerpted from Murray N. Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty , vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791 .] The Federalists shrewdly decided to strike hard and swift and drive the Constitution rapidly through the states. The Federalist leaders were a small and cohesive group concentrated in the cities of the eastern seaboard, knew each