Quotation by James Madison

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.
James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. Virginia Resolves of 1798. W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 17, p. 189, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).
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