56 is an essay by James Madison, the fifty-sixth of The Federalist Papers.

55, this paper discusses the size of the United States House of Representatives.

It is titled "The Same Subject Continued: The Total Number of the House of Representatives".

In this paper, Madison addresses the criticism that the House of Representatives is too small to sufficiently understand the varied interests of all its constituents.

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