Federalist No. 82

Federalist No. 82 (Federalist Number 82) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton and the eighty-second of The Federalist Papers. It was published on July 2, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published. Its title is, "The Judiciary Continued," and it is the fifth in a series of six essays discussing the powers and limitations of the judicial branch of government.