[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citi…

Alexander Hamilton
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[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States, p.69
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