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ergy in government with a due regard to liberty and the republican form," | No. XXXVI. | 241 |
| c. the difficulty of "marking the proper line of partition between the authority of the General, and that of the State governments," | 242 | |
| d. "the interfering pretensions of the larger and smaller States," | 245 | |
| e. "other combinations [of the States], resulting from a difference of local position and policy," | 245 | |
| E. it need not excite wonder if the proposed Constitution shall want harmony between its several parts, | 246 | |
| F. the experience of the past, on similar subjects, when compared with the result in this case, proves, | 246 | |
| a. that the Convention was not afflicted with party animosities, and, | 247 | |
| b. that "all the deputations composing the Convention were finally accommodated," | 247 | |
| G. "in every case reported by ancient history in which government has been established with deliberation and consent," it has been framed by a single individual, | XXXVII. | 247 |
| H. the difficulties which they experienced in the establishment of their governments, | 248 | |
| I. the errors which the new system contains are rather the result of the defect of antecedent experience, than of the want of accuracy and care in preparing it, | 249 | |
| a. proved from general causes, | 249 | |
| b. from the peculiar amendments to the Articles of Confederation which have been proposed for ratification, | 250 | |
| J. the present situation of America considered, | 250 | |
| a. the severity of "her malady," | 251 | |
| b. the diversity of the advice given for her relief, | 251 | |
| c. improbability that those who object to the new system could improve it, | 254 | |
| d. the proposed Constitution, notwithstanding its defects, an improvement on the old one, | 254 | |
| e. the principal grounds of objection to the new one exist, or are permitted to be exercised, under the old one, | 255 | |
| f. answer, that notwithstanding these practices, under the old constitution, they are rendered harmless by the entire dependence of the Congress on the constituent States, considered, | 256 | |
| g. the Congress not open to censure for assuming doubtful authority, | 257 | |
| 2. "a candid survey of the plan of government reported by the Convention," | XXXVIII. | 258 |
