The most important words in each of The Federalist Papers as measured by TF-IDF


Top words in Federalist No. 1

your: 0.0174
you: 0.0097
my: 0.0060
appearance: 0.0053
efficiency: 0.0041
wrong: 0.0035
intentions: 0.0035
introduction: 0.0033
offered: 0.0031
discussion: 0.0030

Top words in Federalist No. 2

providence: 0.0079
recommended: 0.0056
farewell: 0.0053
advised: 0.0044
tried: 0.0038
induced: 0.0036
depended: 0.0036
perpetuate: 0.0036
continuing: 0.0034
patriotism: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 3

governing: 0.0062
temptations: 0.0054
punish: 0.0054
causes: 0.0047
affords: 0.0046
bordering: 0.0046
treaties: 0.0043
nations: 0.0040
hostilities: 0.0039
indian: 0.0039

Top words in Federalist No. 4

fleetlet: 0.0107
navigation: 0.0086
obeyed: 0.0068
militia: 0.0065
wales: 0.0054
fleets: 0.0049
thereby: 0.0045
nations: 0.0045
trade: 0.0042
britain: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 5

confederacies: 0.0076
northern: 0.0067
nations: 0.0067
your: 0.0062
her: 0.0061
neighbors: 0.0059
affection: 0.0058
southern: 0.0058
jealousies: 0.0057
secure: 0.0050

Top words in Federalist No. 6

carthage: 0.0067
wars: 0.0064
pericles: 0.0059
ibid: 0.0059
de: 0.0045
commercial: 0.0045
emperor: 0.0041
nations: 0.0041
italian: 0.0040
madame: 0.0040

Top words in Federalist No. 7

connecticut: 0.0071
debt: 0.0049
dispute: 0.0048
differences: 0.0046
lands: 0.0046
apportionment: 0.0046
territory: 0.0039
jersey: 0.0039
settlement: 0.0038
thursday: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 8

armies: 0.0084
disciplined: 0.0074
military: 0.0071
establishments: 0.0045
soldiery: 0.0043
war: 0.0039
conquests: 0.0036
fortifications: 0.0036
populous: 0.0036
army: 0.0035

Top words in Federalist No. 9

confederate: 0.0089
montesquieu: 0.0061
insurrection: 0.0045
association: 0.0045
internal: 0.0042
republics: 0.0040
republic: 0.0039
assemblage: 0.0037
insisted: 0.0037
petty: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 10

faction: 0.0084
majority: 0.0047
democracy: 0.0044
controlling: 0.0044
parties: 0.0039
republic: 0.0036
cure: 0.0035
factious: 0.0035
property: 0.0033
faculties: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 11

trade: 0.0089
markets: 0.0089
navigation: 0.0084
navy: 0.0076
ships: 0.0066
her: 0.0061
commerce: 0.0048
commercial: 0.0046
profits: 0.0045
maritime: 0.0042

Top words in Federalist No. 12

revenue: 0.0062
per: 0.0061
patrols: 0.0061
contraband: 0.0061
cent: 0.0061
trade: 0.0048
duties: 0.0046
importation: 0.0042
taxes: 0.0041
excise: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 13

northern: 0.0124
her: 0.0120
southern: 0.0081
lists: 0.0068
confederacy: 0.0061
economy: 0.0060
frontier: 0.0057
she: 0.0055
confederacies: 0.0053
divided: 0.0051

Top words in Federalist No. 14

democracy: 0.0077
you: 0.0073
your: 0.0065
atlantic: 0.0056
miles: 0.0056
distance: 0.0054
republic: 0.0050
thirtyone: 0.0041
fortyfifth: 0.0041
hearken: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 15

you: 0.0072
penalty: 0.0043
accounted: 0.0029
resolutions: 0.0026
disobedience: 0.0024
executed: 0.0022
sentences: 0.0022
abridged: 0.0022
requisitions: 0.0020
extremity: 0.0020

Top words in Federalist No. 16

delinquency: 0.0043
associates: 0.0043
idle: 0.0036
refractory: 0.0032
unconstitutional: 0.0032
antiquity: 0.0030
delinquencies: 0.0030
army: 0.0028
capacities: 0.0027
death: 0.0026

Top words in Federalist No. 17

vassals: 0.0094
feudal: 0.0063
nobles: 0.0063
barons: 0.0057
feudatories: 0.0056
retainers: 0.0056
sovereign: 0.0044
encroach: 0.0042
obedience: 0.0038
portions: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 18

macedon: 0.0193
cities: 0.0175
achaeans: 0.0158
amphictyonic: 0.0104
philip: 0.0104
greece: 0.0099
league: 0.0079
macedonian: 0.0062
cleomenes: 0.0062
athens: 0.0057

Top words in Federalist No. 19

emperor: 0.0177
diet: 0.0137
imperial: 0.0113
empire: 0.0108
cantons: 0.0097
charlemagne: 0.0064
city: 0.0064
princes: 0.0057
germanic: 0.0054
ban: 0.0054

Top words in Federalist No. 20

provinces: 0.0183
statesgeneral: 0.0121
provincial: 0.0115
stadtholder: 0.0115
province: 0.0058
sir: 0.0057
stadtholdership: 0.0057
says: 0.0048
ago: 0.0048
william: 0.0048

Top words in Federalist No. 21

guaranty: 0.0106
lands: 0.0066
inequalities: 0.0056
wealth: 0.0050
total: 0.0045
valuation: 0.0044
consumption: 0.0042
value: 0.0038
tacit: 0.0037
contributions: 0.0035

Top words in Federalist No. 22

majority: 0.0053
quotas: 0.0026
determinations: 0.0026
nine: 0.0025
bar: 0.0025
compromises: 0.0025
minority: 0.0024
vote: 0.0023
votes: 0.0022
ally: 0.0021

Top words in Federalist No. 23

energetic: 0.0050
defense: 0.0046
build: 0.0041
equip: 0.0041
convince: 0.0037
direction: 0.0034
fleets: 0.0034
requisitions: 0.0034
impracticability: 0.0033
preservation: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 24

garrisons: 0.0084
settlements: 0.0066
standing: 0.0062
armies: 0.0060
dockyards: 0.0056
establishments: 0.0054
he: 0.0051
posts: 0.0045
spain: 0.0044
bills: 0.0042

Top words in Federalist No. 25

respected: 0.0046
lysander: 0.0044
armies: 0.0043
prepare: 0.0037
admiral: 0.0037
prohibition: 0.0037
military: 0.0036
troops: 0.0034
pretenses: 0.0033
peace: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 26

enough: 0.0043
army: 0.0042
military: 0.0041
standing: 0.0037
armies: 0.0036
peace: 0.0033
kept: 0.0032
somewhere: 0.0031
revolution: 0.0028
restraining: 0.0027

Top words in Federalist No. 27

administered: 0.0055
obedience: 0.0041
reasons: 0.0037
meet: 0.0036
sight: 0.0032
designation: 0.0030
divine: 0.0030
presupposition: 0.0030
inexplicitness: 0.0030
presuppose: 0.0030

Top words in Federalist No. 28

usurpers: 0.0056
militia: 0.0055
resistance: 0.0052
parcels: 0.0046
maintain: 0.0038
efforts: 0.0034
insurrections: 0.0032
raise: 0.0030
regular: 0.0028
rulers: 0.0028

Top words in Federalist No. 29

militia: 0.0216
disciplining: 0.0059
posse: 0.0059
comitatus: 0.0059
army: 0.0051
calling: 0.0050
discipline: 0.0041
marched: 0.0039
kentucky: 0.0039
corps: 0.0038

Top words in Federalist No. 30

loans: 0.0067
sums: 0.0057
funds: 0.0050
necessities: 0.0049
taxation: 0.0049
diverting: 0.0045
wants: 0.0041
requisitions: 0.0041
supplied: 0.0039
procure: 0.0038

Top words in Federalist No. 31

taxation: 0.0064
divisibility: 0.0051
procuring: 0.0051
exigencies: 0.0043
positions: 0.0043
conjectures: 0.0043
sciences: 0.0038
encroach: 0.0038
usurpation: 0.0038
limitation: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 32

exports: 0.0131
clause: 0.0130
imports: 0.0113
tax: 0.0085
restriction: 0.0075
exclusive: 0.0075
duties: 0.0067
section: 0.0063
negation: 0.0059
affirmance: 0.0059

Top words in Federalist No. 33

clause: 0.0080
supremacy: 0.0071
pursuant: 0.0066
supreme: 0.0047
taxation: 0.0047
laying: 0.0046
taxes: 0.0044
societies: 0.0044
laws: 0.0042
law: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 34

expenses: 0.0071
disproportion: 0.0060
pounds: 0.0045
debts: 0.0044
revenue: 0.0042
contingencies: 0.0041
calculate: 0.0041
patrician: 0.0040
plebian: 0.0040
comitia: 0.0040

Top words in Federalist No. 35

merchant: 0.0087
manufacturing: 0.0075
consumer: 0.0059
importing: 0.0059
landholder: 0.0059
merchants: 0.0058
classes: 0.0051
taxation: 0.0049
professions: 0.0044
learned: 0.0044

Top words in Federalist No. 36

taxation: 0.0054
taxes: 0.0040
knowledge: 0.0039
revenue: 0.0036
double: 0.0032
resource: 0.0030
poll: 0.0030
interference: 0.0029
details: 0.0028
abstain: 0.0025

Top words in Federalist No. 37

obscurity: 0.0056
difficulties: 0.0043
predetermination: 0.0032
allowances: 0.0032
organ: 0.0032
delineating: 0.0032
denoting: 0.0032
distinctly: 0.0032
almighty: 0.0032
undertaking: 0.0031

Top words in Federalist No. 38

patient: 0.0066
lycurgus: 0.0045
substituted: 0.0042
indefinite: 0.0035
solon: 0.0034
bill: 0.0032
agreed: 0.0031
regular: 0.0027
congress: 0.0027
draco: 0.0027

Top words in Federalist No. 39

partly: 0.0086
indirectly: 0.0064
majority: 0.0050
republican: 0.0042
again: 0.0041
assent: 0.0039
tenure: 0.0036
according: 0.0035
supremacy: 0.0035
impeachable: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 40

alterations: 0.0074
confederation: 0.0068
annapolis: 0.0058
confirmed: 0.0058
recommendatory: 0.0058
twelve: 0.0049
convention: 0.0049
adequate: 0.0047
articles: 0.0047
therein: 0.0044

Top words in Federalist No. 41

her: 0.0046
loves: 0.0037
europe: 0.0035
armies: 0.0034
welfare: 0.0032
liberties: 0.0029
appropriations: 0.0028
authors: 0.0026
standing: 0.0025
vii: 0.0025

Top words in Federalist No. 42

coin: 0.0109
felonies: 0.0079
consuls: 0.0076
piracies: 0.0063
residence: 0.0060
citizenship: 0.0053
confederation: 0.0049
commerce: 0.0044
articles: 0.0044
regulate: 0.0043

Top words in Federalist No. 43

compact: 0.0043
validity: 0.0038
cession: 0.0032
republican: 0.0029
concerned: 0.0027
deposited: 0.0026
treason: 0.0026
confederate: 0.0026
square: 0.0026
magazines: 0.0026

Top words in Federalist No. 44

enumeration: 0.0072
coin: 0.0052
silver: 0.0042
exports: 0.0039
excepted: 0.0039
marque: 0.0038
copied: 0.0038
attempted: 0.0037
gold: 0.0036
letters: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 45

officers: 0.0050
collectors: 0.0041
compare: 0.0037
justices: 0.0035
enjoy: 0.0031
sovereigns: 0.0031
millions: 0.0030
component: 0.0028
governments: 0.0028
happiness: 0.0028

Top words in Federalist No. 46

governments: 0.0042
militia: 0.0034
prepossessions: 0.0032
federal: 0.0029
everything: 0.0028
insult: 0.0028
sufficiently: 0.0024
attach: 0.0023
arms: 0.0023
officers: 0.0022

Top words in Federalist No. 47

department: 0.0166
executive: 0.0158
judiciary: 0.0113
justices: 0.0095
legislative: 0.0086
departments: 0.0064
maxim: 0.0059
montesquieu: 0.0055
appointed: 0.0049
appointable: 0.0048

Top words in Federalist No. 48

departments: 0.0081
executive: 0.0073
judiciary: 0.0062
department: 0.0061
legislative: 0.0056
encroaching: 0.0047
council: 0.0037
drawing: 0.0035
restrained: 0.0032
assumed: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 49

appeals: 0.0084
departments: 0.0077
philosophers: 0.0040
quoted: 0.0034
dwell: 0.0034
prepossessions: 0.0034
decision: 0.0033
passions: 0.0030
party: 0.0030
whenever: 0.0029

Top words in Federalist No. 50

appeals: 0.0126
council: 0.0087
recent: 0.0081
censorial: 0.0079
extinction: 0.0079
constructions: 0.0067
active: 0.0062
periods: 0.0060
names: 0.0059
decisions: 0.0057

Top words in Federalist No. 51

department: 0.0059
sects: 0.0058
weaker: 0.0055
rigorously: 0.0046
angels: 0.0046
society: 0.0046
stronger: 0.0044
republic: 0.0040
rights: 0.0037
multiplicity: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 52

elections: 0.0126
biennial: 0.0082
parliaments: 0.0071
septennial: 0.0054
years: 0.0052
parliament: 0.0048
irish: 0.0048
reign: 0.0046
dependence: 0.0045
representatives: 0.0043

Top words in Federalist No. 53

elections: 0.0116
knowledge: 0.0086
annual: 0.0062
year: 0.0053
service: 0.0048
legislation: 0.0046
biennial: 0.0042
information: 0.0041
proverbial: 0.0041
conversation: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 54

slaves: 0.0182
property: 0.0106
representation: 0.0088
inhabitants: 0.0076
southern: 0.0066
census: 0.0056
master: 0.0056
slave: 0.0056
rule: 0.0053
votes: 0.0048

Top words in Federalist No. 55

hundred: 0.0084
sixtyfive: 0.0065
representatives: 0.0057
thousand: 0.0052
population: 0.0044
years: 0.0042
census: 0.0041
six: 0.0036
seven: 0.0036
athenian: 0.0036

Top words in Federalist No. 56

knowledge: 0.0112
information: 0.0089
representatives: 0.0061
eight: 0.0055
constitutents: 0.0053
representative: 0.0053
legislation: 0.0052
hundred: 0.0052
local: 0.0050
diversified: 0.0045

Top words in Federalist No. 57

representatives: 0.0065
choosing: 0.0054
five: 0.0050
representative: 0.0045
six: 0.0042
sterling: 0.0040
county: 0.0038
counties: 0.0038
estate: 0.0035
city: 0.0035

Top words in Federalist No. 58

representatives: 0.0069
majority: 0.0045
coalition: 0.0043
population: 0.0042
reapportionments: 0.0042
house: 0.0038
quorum: 0.0035
supported: 0.0034
firmness: 0.0032
prompted: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 59

elections: 0.0093
senators: 0.0058
legislatures: 0.0045
risk: 0.0039
regulate: 0.0036
exclusive: 0.0033
election: 0.0031
advancement: 0.0029
1st: 0.0027
presume: 0.0027

Top words in Federalist No. 60

landed: 0.0081
discrimination: 0.0067
preference: 0.0058
wellborn: 0.0049
class: 0.0044
partiality: 0.0044
mercantile: 0.0037
election: 0.0036
wealthy: 0.0035
exclusion: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 61

elections: 0.0105
albany: 0.0073
city: 0.0068
counties: 0.0055
electors: 0.0051
county: 0.0041
gradual: 0.0041
uniformity: 0.0040
miles: 0.0039
election: 0.0038

Top words in Federalist No. 62

senate: 0.0046
deficient: 0.0042
senators: 0.0039
iv: 0.0037
infirmity: 0.0037
inconstant: 0.0037
iii: 0.0031
thoroughly: 0.0031
voluminous: 0.0031
change: 0.0030

Top words in Federalist No. 63

senate: 0.0079
elected: 0.0049
annually: 0.0044
sparta: 0.0040
carthage: 0.0037
tribunes: 0.0037
representatives: 0.0033
rome: 0.0033
ephori: 0.0029
transform: 0.0029

Top words in Federalist No. 64

treaties: 0.0114
secrecy: 0.0066
tides: 0.0057
president: 0.0054
despatch: 0.0049
senate: 0.0043
senators: 0.0040
cancel: 0.0038
gentlemen: 0.0037
electors: 0.0034

Top words in Federalist No. 65

court: 0.0110
impeachments: 0.0099
accused: 0.0055
prosecution: 0.0049
impeachment: 0.0046
trial: 0.0045
conceited: 0.0044
sentence: 0.0042
judges: 0.0035
jury: 0.0035

Top words in Federalist No. 66

senate: 0.0106
impeachments: 0.0098
court: 0.0052
thirds: 0.0049
punishment: 0.0043
misbehavior: 0.0039
determining: 0.0035
accusers: 0.0033
deciding: 0.0033
instructions: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 67

vacancies: 0.0219
recess: 0.0140
appointments: 0.0111
session: 0.0111
clause: 0.0094
senate: 0.0091
fill: 0.0079
president: 0.0076
clauses: 0.0073
expire: 0.0067

Top words in Federalist No. 68

vicepresident: 0.0116
president: 0.0116
senator: 0.0066
votes: 0.0064
vote: 0.0053
electors: 0.0051
choice: 0.0048
chosen: 0.0047
election: 0.0046
eminent: 0.0044

Top words in Federalist No. 69

governor: 0.0165
president: 0.0101
king: 0.0098
treason: 0.0051
prerogative: 0.0047
parliament: 0.0045
britain: 0.0039
governors: 0.0033
commanderinchief: 0.0033
actual: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 70

plurality: 0.0082
executive: 0.0069
council: 0.0062
consuls: 0.0047
unity: 0.0042
punishment: 0.0041
responsibility: 0.0040
ingredients: 0.0037
republic: 0.0032
energy: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 71

firmness: 0.0076
duration: 0.0067
complaisance: 0.0052
executive: 0.0045
he: 0.0045
his: 0.0041
title: 0.0038
office: 0.0035
err: 0.0035
holds: 0.0032

Top words in Federalist No. 72

exclusion: 0.0104
he: 0.0072
his: 0.0065
ill: 0.0052
station: 0.0044
office: 0.0042
perpetual: 0.0040
magistrate: 0.0037
reeligibility: 0.0036
predecessor: 0.0036

Top words in Federalist No. 73

negative: 0.0075
executive: 0.0064
his: 0.0040
veto: 0.0037
preventing: 0.0036
resolutions: 0.0034
using: 0.0031
embark: 0.0031
bare: 0.0031
legislative: 0.0031

Top words in Federalist No. 74

pardoning: 0.0130
treason: 0.0089
guilt: 0.0077
connivance: 0.0073
clemency: 0.0073
crime: 0.0073
plead: 0.0059
depended: 0.0059
impunity: 0.0055
weakness: 0.0055

Top words in Federalist No. 75

treaties: 0.0077
thirds: 0.0069
senate: 0.0062
president: 0.0045
making: 0.0042
voices: 0.0038
while: 0.0034
intermixture: 0.0034
executive: 0.0033
vote: 0.0031

Top words in Federalist No. 76

nomination: 0.0115
senate: 0.0046
venalty: 0.0045
president: 0.0045
assembly: 0.0043
appointing: 0.0037
candidate: 0.0034
overruled: 0.0034
favoritism: 0.0034
man: 0.0033

Top words in Federalist No. 77

nomination: 0.0087
senate: 0.0070
president: 0.0057
convening: 0.0050
council: 0.0049
governor: 0.0045
executive: 0.0043
appointment: 0.0042
influencing: 0.0037
requisites: 0.0037

Top words in Federalist No. 78

courts: 0.0091
judges: 0.0054
judiciary: 0.0051
void: 0.0046
statutes: 0.0043
judicial: 0.0042
tenure: 0.0031
preferred: 0.0031
superior: 0.0026
statute: 0.0026

Top words in Federalist No. 79

judges: 0.0101
compensation: 0.0087
inability: 0.0087
insanity: 0.0084
subsistence: 0.0071
faculties: 0.0064
bench: 0.0064
diminished: 0.0061
salaries: 0.0058
office: 0.0046

Top words in Federalist No. 80

controversies: 0.0075
equity: 0.0064
courts: 0.0056
grants: 0.0054
citizens: 0.0049
tribunals: 0.0045
cases: 0.0044
maritime: 0.0043
equitable: 0.0043
arising: 0.0042

Top words in Federalist No. 81

courts: 0.0106
court: 0.0099
appellate: 0.0085
jury: 0.0066
supreme: 0.0056
jurisdiction: 0.0056
inferior: 0.0048
reexamination: 0.0048
cognizance: 0.0047
judicial: 0.0045

Top words in Federalist No. 82

courts: 0.0268
tribunals: 0.0101
jurisdiction: 0.0100
appellate: 0.0098
court: 0.0096
supreme: 0.0084
concurrent: 0.0082
appeal: 0.0079
cognizance: 0.0068
judiciary: 0.0067

Top words in Federalist No. 83

jury: 0.0226
trial: 0.0105
courts: 0.0069
juries: 0.0057
criminal: 0.0053
chancery: 0.0051
admiralty: 0.0048
equity: 0.0045
court: 0.0043
cases: 0.0041

Top words in Federalist No. 84

press: 0.0079
bill: 0.0056
extra: 0.0042
rights: 0.0037
expense: 0.0035
secretary: 0.0031
clause: 0.0028
contains: 0.0027
habeas: 0.0027
corpus: 0.0027

Top words in Federalist No. 85

amendments: 0.0079
fourths: 0.0055
amendment: 0.0049
your: 0.0042
adoption: 0.0041
concessions: 0.0037
thirteen: 0.0035
nine: 0.0033
my: 0.0031
perfection: 0.0029