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Federalist No. 31

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... A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

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Hamilton, A., Madison, J., Jay, J. (2009). Federalist No. 31. In: The Federalist Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102019_10

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