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a. unless the Fœderal government shall be worse administered than the State governments, there will be no danger from popular ill-will, | No. XXVII. | 176 |
b. it is probable that the former will be better administered than the latter, | 177 | |
A. from the greater latitude of choice, in the selection of officers, | 177 | |
B. from the peculiar care and judgment with which the Fœderal Senate will be composed, | 177 | |
C. from the superior intelligence of the Fœderal Congress, | 177 | |
D. from the absence of faction therein, | 177 | |
c. there will be less liability to sedition, because there will be a greater power to suppress it, | 178 | |
d. The Fœderal government "will be strengthened by its extension to matters of internal concern," | 178 | |
b the proposed form of government "bids much fairer to avoid the necessity of using force," than that proposed by its opponents, | 179 | |
a. because "it enables the Fœderal government to employ the ordinary magistracy of each State, in the execution of its laws," | 179 | |
b. because it displays to the People the common origin of both the Fœderal and the State governments, | 179 | |
c. because it conveys to the People the consideration of its superior power to enforce obedience, and thereby checks disaffection, | 179 | |
A. "the laws of the confederacy, as to the enumerated and legitimate objects of its jurisdiction, the supreme law of the land," | 180 | |
c. "there may happen cases in which the National government may be necessitated to resort to force," | XXVIII. | 181 |
a. in which cases force must be employed, | 181 | |
A. examples referred to, in the individual States, | 182 | |
B. it would be equally necessary in the plan proposed by the opponents of the new system, | 182 | |
b. it will be entirely controlled by the representatives of the People, | 183 | |
A. if the Congress betrays the People there is no remedy but "the original right of self-defence, which is paramount to all positive forms of government," | 183 | |
B. in that case it may be remedied better than if a State government should be similarly treacherous, | 183 | |
C. the State governments the greatest security against Fœderal usurpations of power by the Fœderal authorities, | 185 |