Note 44 — Dickinson, John. Letters of Fabius on the Federal Constitution.

When the controuling power is in a constitution, it has the nation for its support, and the natural and the political controuling powers are together. The laws which are enacted by the governments, controul men only as individuals, but the nation, thro’ its constitution controuls the whole government, and has a natural ability to do so. The final controuling power, therefore, and the original constituting power, are one and the same power.—“Rights of Man,” 1792. part 2d, b. 4, page 42.