Hamilton implored the 13 newly formed states of the United States of the need for a strong federal government; he feared the grave dangers that awaited this newly formed body of states. “He must be very advanced in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that, if these States were entirely disunited, or united only in partial confederations, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other. To assume the lack of grounds for such contentions as an argument against their existence would be to forget that men are ambitious, vengeful, and rapacious. To seek a continuation of harmony among a number of independent and unrelated sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to ignore the uniform course of human events and to defy the experience accumulated over centuries” (Hamilton). Hamilton draws on the great English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes and the social theory of contract for a clear understanding of the issues. Social contract theory is the basis for the Declaration of Independence and the guide t...