About “Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States”
Federalist No. 44 is an essay written by James Madison, the forty-fourth in the series of The Federalist Papers. It was published on January 25, 1788, in The New York Packet under the pseudonym Publius, which was used for all the essays. The essay discusses the limitations placed on state powers by the Constitution, a point that drew criticism from the Anti-Federalists, who favored stronger state sovereignty. The title of the essay is "Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)