Federalist paper No 30 includes the passage " ... there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another." Why did the Federalists write this?

They believed the government should be paid.

They believed the inability to tax was a problem from the Articles of Confederation that must be fixed

They believed the states should not collect taxes.

They believed the taxation should be without representation

They believed the Articles of Confederation called for too many taxes

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Campbell Walsh

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28 September, 20:47

Federalist paper No 30 includes the passage " ... there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another." Why did the Federalists write this?

They believed the government should be paid.

They believed the inability to tax was a problem from the Articles of Confederation that must be fixed

They believed the states should not collect taxes.

They believed the taxation should be without representation

They believed the Articles of Confederation called for too many taxes

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Jordyn Atkinson · Answer 1

The Federalist Papers were a series of eighty-five essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, the essays originally appeared anonymously in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 under the pen name "Publius."

The main purpose of The Federalist Papers was to explain the newly proposed constitution (we had a first constitution called The Articles of Confederation) to the people of New York in the hopes of encouraging them to ratify the new constitution in the upcoming ratifying convention.