Alexander Hamilton Quotes:
Ocupation: Founding Father of the United States
Life: January 11, 1757 - July 12, 1804
Birthday: January 11
Death: July 12
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.
source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield
topic: Ideas, Government, Important, Federalism, Imports, Federalist Papers, National Sovereignty, Implying
