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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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concluding that there would be commonly no defect of inclination in the [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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  • ...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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  • ...equisites to energy, which have been enumerated, are competent powers. Let us proceed to consider those which are proposed to be vested in the President ...rules of just reasoning and theoretic propriety would of themselves teach us, that the one ought not to be left to the mercy of the other, but ought to
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  • ...id of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue whic ...rease into the account, the multitudinous composition of that body, forbid us to expect in it those qualities which are essential to the proper execution
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  • ...t, the coalition will commonly turn upon some interested equivalent: "Give us the man we wish for this office, and you shall have the one you wish for th ...t, the coalition will commonly turn upon some interested equivalent: "Give us the man we wish for this office, and you shall have the one you wish for th
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  • Let us take a view of the converse of the proposition: "the Senate would influence ...The example of most of the States in their local constitutions encourages us to reprobate the idea.
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  • ...ng indicate the converse of that rule as proper to be followed. They teach us that the prior act of a superior ought to be preferred to the subsequent ac ...isite integrity with the requisite knowledge. These considerations apprise us, that the government can have no great option between fit character; and th
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  • ...ber by Maximilian, towards the close of the fifteenth century; and informs us, at the same time, of the vast influence of that institution in appeasing t ...is constitutes the entire mass of the judicial authority of the Union. Let us now review it in detail. It is, then, to extend:
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  • LET US now return to the partition of the judiciary authority between different co These considerations teach us to applaud the wisdom of those States who have committed the judicial power
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  • The principles established in a former paper<ref>No. 31.</ref> teach us that the States will retain all PRE-EXISTING authorities which may not be e [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]
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