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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

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