To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.


The Federalist: On the New Constitution (ed. 1810)

Alexander Hamilton Quotes

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,...

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,...

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,...

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,...