Federalist No. 36 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the thirty-sixth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published in the New York Packet on January 8, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. This is the last of seven essays by Hamilton on the then-controversial issue of taxation. It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning the General Power of Taxation". Source: Wikipedia (en)