It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self…

James Madison
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It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788, p.219
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