Summary: John Jay begins by stating that for a number of years, the general consensus among the people is that the best government for the nation would be a national government, invested with sufficient power "for all general purposes." He then says the more that he carefully examines the issues, the more convinced that the people are right. For him, the greatest issue concerning government is the safety of the people and in this essay …showed first 75 words of 994 total…

…showed last 75 words of 994 total…the temptation will be fruitless, and good faith and justice be preserver." Thus, Jay is not arguing differently, but rather applying the future argument of Madison (for example, in Federalist #10) and Hamilton (Federalist #9) regarding the dangers of factions to the principles of the safety against foreign powers. Jay, therefore, is as fearful of majoriitanism as his co-authors and merely gives another reason to be fearful of factions, that of defending the country from foreign attack.