Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
Alexander HamiltonGive me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
Alexander HamiltonThe natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
Alexander HamiltonManufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.
Alexander Hamilton