Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

The Federalist Papers
(http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html)
These are anonymously published essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788 in support of the proposed U.S. Constitution. The essays provide detailed explanations of constitutional provisions and are used today to illuminate the ideas that appear in the Constitution.

The Massachusetts Health Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, David A. Hyman
(http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8431)
A short (only eight pages in the main text) review of the 2006 Massachusetts law requiring all citizens to have health insurance, appearing in the Cato Institute's Policy Analysis series.

Office of Federal Relations of the National Governors Association (NGA)
(http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.cb6e7818b34088d18a278110501010a0/?vgnextoid=319be691c1116110VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD)
NGA letter to the House Financial Services Committee regarding the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007.

1			After reading some of the essays in The Federalist Papers, which argument of those you have encountered do you believe is the most effective?
2			Is the Massachusetts health plan one that could be an innovation that other states might pick up—or even the federal government? Why, or why not?
3			What is the National Governors Association specifically asking for in its letter to the committee? Why do you think it raised this issue?