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• The Federalist Papers - Number 42
  {{#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American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=6}} [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]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 Federalist Papers - Number 43
  ...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
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 44
  ...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that additional fences against these dangers ought not to be [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 45
  ...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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• The Federalist Papers - Number 46
  ...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
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 47
  ...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 [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 48
  ...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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• The Federalist Papers - Number 49
  ...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]]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 50
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 51
  ...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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• The Federalist Papers - Number 52
  ...aracter ought to be applied, is the House of Commons in Great Britain. The history of this branch of the English Constitution, anterior to the date of Magna C ...pend on a due connection between their representatives and themselves. Let us bring our inquiries nearer home. The example of these States, when British
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 53
  ...f them does not extend. I need not look for a proof beyond the case before us. What is the reason on which this proverbial observation is founded? No man ...means of obtaining a seat. All these considerations taken together warrant us in affirming, that biennial elections will be as useful to the affairs of t
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 54
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 55
  ...nts of other legislative bodies. With these general ideas in our mind, let us weigh the objections which have been stated against the number of members p ...e at this time a free and independent nation? The Congress which conducted us through the Revolution was a less numerous body than their successors will
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 56
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 57
  ...y an unfit one, than five or six hundred. Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number a fit representative would be most likely to [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 58
  ...a word, hold the purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the peo ...of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us.
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 59
  THE natural order of the subject leads us to consider, in this place, that provision of the Constitution which author [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 60
  ...ical. On the one hand, no rational calculation of probabilities would lead us to imagine that the disposition which a conduct so violent and extraordinar ...s circumstances of that sort; a consideration which alone ought to satisfy us that the discrimination apprehended would never be attempted. For what indu
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• The Federalist Papers - Number 61
  ...ation to the point immediately under consideration, they ought to convince us that it is less probable that a predominant faction in a single State shoul [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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