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  • [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • ...which to judge of the true nature of the clause complained of. It conducts us to this palpable truth, that a power to lay and collect taxes must be a pow {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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  • ...n have looked with so hostile an aspect upon each other? To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructiv ...the large debt which we have ourselves contracted in a single war, and let us only calculate on a common share of the events which disturb the peace of n
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  • ...not in the same degree, from the other causes that have been noticed. Let us now return to the examination of objections. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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  • {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • The novelty of the undertaking immediately strikes us. It has been shown in the course of these papers, that the existing Confede ...ns and hopes from the efforts of human sagacity. Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminat
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  • IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, th ...egular plans of government, they serve not less, on the other, to admonish us of the hazards and difficulties incident to such experiments, and of the gr
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  • {{#dpl:category=Political History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • ...able us to judge with propriety of the course taken by the convention. Let us view the ground on which the convention stood. {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}}
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  • {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=8}} [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
    17 KB (2,846 words) - 16:24, 24 May 2019
  • ...ee cities and petty states, subject to different princes, experience shows us that it is more imperfect than that of Holland and Switzerland." "Greece wa ...he other cantons. A recent and well-known event among ourselves has warned us to be prepared for emergencies of a like nature. At first view, it might se
    21 KB (3,481 words) - 16:40, 24 May 2019
  • ...rit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our own experience has taught us, nevertheless, that additional fences against these dangers ought not to be [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
    18 KB (2,957 words) - 05:03, 28 May 2019
  • ...ow far the unsacrificed residue will be endangered, is the question before us. Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these ...must have borne a still greater analogy to it. Yet history does not inform us that either of them ever degenerated, or tended to degenerate, into one con
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  • ...d acknowledgments of such as have had a seat in that assembly, will inform us, that the members have but too frequently displayed the character, rather o ...ry power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce
    16 KB (2,662 words) - 05:06, 28 May 2019
  • ...m. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which the maxim was drawn. [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
    17 KB (2,794 words) - 05:11, 28 May 2019
  • ...errors into which they have fallen. A respect for truth, however, obliges us to remark, that they seem never for a moment to have turned their eyes from ...ubt it, turn their eyes on the republic of Venice. As little will it avail us, that they are chosen by ourselves. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the gover
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  • ...ide or the other, would each side enjoy equal advantages on the trial? Let us view their different situations. The members of the executive and judiciary [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
    10 KB (1,709 words) - 05:15, 28 May 2019
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    7 KB (1,149 words) - 05:17, 28 May 2019
  • ...al observations, which may perhaps place it in a clearer light, and enable us to form a more correct judgment of the principles and structure of the gove [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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