At the Constitutional Convention, Delegate Luther Martin, of New Jersey, argues that the federal government is to be formed for the States, not individuals.
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At the Constitutional Convention, Delegate James Madison, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, warns against allowing the president to be in command of a large peace-time professional military:
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending have enslaved the people.
Meanwhile, Delegate Alexander Hamilton, of New York, speaking on the equality of the States in Congress claims that they are merely “artificial beings.”
[restored 9/18/2021] Thanks to Chuck McGlawn for this entry.
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Authority:
Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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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), 25-26.
Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed., (New York: Columbia Univerisity Press, 1961-87), 4:222.
Avalon Project – Madison Debates – June 29
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_629.asp
Madison Was Right about Korea
www.fff.org/2010/11/24/madison-korea/
James Madison Quotes from the year 1787.mht
www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/james-madison-quotes-2.html
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