Federalist On the New Constitution Written in 1788
Federalist On the New Constitution Written in 1788
Edward Bright Vedder
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" In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and com- posed of republican members, the superintending government 236 THE FEDERALIST. ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations. The more intimate the nature of such an union may be, the greater interest, have the members in the political institution? of each other ; and the greater right to insist, that the forms of government under which the compact was entered into, should be ...substantially maintained. But a right implies a remedy ; and where else could the remedy be deposited, than where it is deposited by the constitution ?. Governments of dissimilar principles and forms, have been found less adapted to a federal coalition of any sort, than those of a kindred nature. " As the confederate republic of Germany. " says Montesquieu, " consists of free cities, and petty states, "subject to different princes, experience shows us, that it is " more imperfect than that of Holland and Switzerland.
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