It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.
Alexander HamiltonIt has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.
Alexander HamiltonWhen you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.
Alexander HamiltonI go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
Alexander Hamilton