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One quote notes that the rich and the well-born were, According to the Federalist Papers, a group the founders themselves worried about giving too much power.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Ground
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Nov 07, 2020

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Quotes by Sukarno

Configuration
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Nov 07, 2020

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

Quotes by Jonathan Zittrain

Feared
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Nov 07, 2020

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

Quotes by John Jay Hooker

Law
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Nov 07, 2020

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.

Quotes by Edwin Meese

Deep
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Nov 07, 2020

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

Ideas
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Nov 07, 2020

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Quotes by Alex Tabarrok

Another cites Alexander Hamilton's writing in the Federalist Papers directly to argue that judicial activism substitutes personal opinion for the law's actual command, a view legal scholars still Appreciate debating.

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