The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 17 · paragraph 10

The reasoning on this head has been abundantly exemplified by the experience of all federal constitutions with which we are acquainted, and of all others which have borne the least analogy to them.

Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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