The Federalist
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Collection of essays by Hamilton and Madison quoted extensively as authority for the argument that divided government secures the people's rights.
Federalist.
“The federal and state governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, instituted with different powers, and designed for different purposes.
“In the compound republick of America, the power surrendered by the people, is first divided between two distinct governments, and the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments.
The Rights of War and Peace
Collection of essays on constitutional government by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.
When Hamilton, Madison, and Jay first conceived the idea of printing in the common tongue their ideas upon the principles of free government, they unwittingly laid the foundations of the best commentary on the principles of popular government ever written.