Republican (constitutionalist) former President Jefferson writing to Major John Cartwright, of the Army of the United Kingdom, explains the principal of federalism:
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.”
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s arch-enemy betrayed the American Revolution—and what it means today, (New York: Crown-Forum, 2008), 15-16n13.
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