http://joelmathis.blogspot.com/2010/07/federalist-23-29-freedom-and-national.html Since World War Two, the president was granted even greater, seemingly uncheckable power to take action in order to protect America from enemies. Federalist 23-29 was written by Alexander Hamilton defending the government's right to raise a standing army. The aricle above talks about his arguments. I agree with many arguments Hamilton had to make.