““The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.””

— Alexander Hamilton

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““The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.””

— James Madison

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As an Arizona resident who worked against his re-election the last four times, I wish he had retired years ago.

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I've every reason to fight religious discrimination.

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