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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 34, 1788

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