The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 23 · paragraph 2

The necessity of a Constitution, at least equally energetic with the one proposed, to the preservation of the Union, is the point at the examination of which we are now arrived.

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