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Federalism Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government…
- The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one…
- To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
- I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to…
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
- The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving…
- It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness…
- The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare…
- It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in…
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- ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — Unknown Author
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never… — Thomas Jefferson
- So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state… — Joseph Story
- The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect… — Joseph Story
- In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.… — Joseph Story
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton
- The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a… — Alexander Hamilton