The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
Alexander HamiltonSchemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
Alexander HamiltonThe legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.
Alexander HamiltonI propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
Alexander Hamilton