The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 45 · paragraph 7

Should it happen, however, that separate collectors of internal revenue should be appointed under the federal government, the influence of the whole number would not bear a comparison with that of the multitude of State officers in the opposite scale.

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