Top Federalism Quotes Collection

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Image of Alexander Hamilton
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Federalism
Image of Alexander Hamilton
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Federalism
Image of James Madison
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
- James Madison
Collection: Federalism