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  • If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.105
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