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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as in so great a number a fit representative would be most likely to [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]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consider, in this place, that provision of the Constitution which author [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]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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The Federalist Papers - Number 63
...mall weight to all these considerations, to recollect that history informs us of no long-lived republic which had not a senate. Sparta, Rome, and Carthag ...ately, however, for the anti-federal argument, the British history informs us that this hereditary assembly has not been able to defend itself against th

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The Federalist Papers - Number 64
...eside over them; and they who have had much experience on this head inform us, that there frequently are occasions when days, nay, even when hours, are p ...sputed that they who make treaties may alter or cancel them; but still let us not forget that treaties are made, not by only one of the contracting parti

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The Federalist Papers - Number 65
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The Federalist Papers - Number 66
...should be satisfactory, the usual propensity of human nature will warrant us in concluding that there would be commonly no defect of inclination in the [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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Was William Tell a real person
...gence as a nation. <ref> Church, Clive H., and Randolph C. Head. A concise history of Switzerland (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp 45-50</ref> ...elvetica (1734–36), written by Gilg Tschudi. This Swiss author has given us the definitive version of the story of William Tell.

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The Federalist Papers - Number 68
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The Federalist Papers - Number 69
...the practice which has obtained under it. The power of appointment is with us lodged in a council, composed of the governor and four members of the Senat ...ike resemble each other? The same that ought to be given to those who tell us that a government, the whole power of which would be in the hands of the el

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The Federalist Papers - Number 70
...tary Tribunes, who were at times substituted for the Consuls. But it gives us no specimens of any peculiar advantages derived to the state from the circu A little consideration will satisfy us, that the species of security sought for in the multiplication of the Execu

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The Federalist Papers - Number 71
...he propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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The Federalist Papers - Number 72
...t to his superintendence. This view of the subject will at once suggest to us the intimate connection between the duration of the executive magistrate in [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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