Combination Quote by James Madison

The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one…

— Thomas Jefferson

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them…

— Alexander Hamilton

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

— Aristotle

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the…

— James Madison

“Madison’s response is famously expressed in Federalist 10, “The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic Faction and Insurrection”—arguing that tyranny of…

— John Avlon

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense…

— James Madison

The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of…

— Alexander Hamilton