The Central Conflict
'Federalist No. 86' identifies a critical tension: an Executive asserting boundless authority against the Constitution's clear design for limitation. This section introduces the core arguments of Publius's modern warning.
"Now, alas, we find ourselves compelled by urgent necessity to address a new and grievous affliction that has befallen our young Republic... We behold a spectacle most disquieting: a President who questions the very Constitution he swore to uphold, asserting a boundless authority where our design plainly intended limitation."
- PUBLIUS, Federalist No. 86