...organization. It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all the rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet...the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...

...judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union . . . Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. • Source B: Extract from a petition against ratification, presented to the Freemen of Pennsylvania,...

...the following extract cannot but be interesting. " It is obviously impracticable (says the address) in the federal government of these states, to secure...share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude « 2 Pitk. Hist. 219 ; 5 Marsh. Life of Wash. 124, 125 ; 12 Journ. of Congress, 12, 13, 14 ; 2 Pitk....

...necessity of a different organization. It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of thesu States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty...the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and * Max Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention, Volume II, pp. 664-666, circumstances as on the object...

...Constitutional Convention in the letter accompanying the newly drafted Constitution to Congress (1787): "Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest." This understanding that individuals establish the government to protect their rights leads to the second...