The Federalist Papers are not written as
position papers, so much as they are composed to convey concepts, and at a
metaphorical level.
Anti Free Trade
Federalist Papers 5-6
There are some, who maintain, that trade will
regulate itself, and is not to be benefited by the encouragements
or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine, that there
is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild
speculative paradoxes.