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Note 2
THE FEDERALIST. No. LXVII.

Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison

Article 1, section 3, clause 1.

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…on, and which SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY LAW”; of course it cannot extend to the appointments of senators, whose appointments are OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR in the Constitution,[2] and who are ESTABLISHED BY THE CONSTITUTION, and will not require a future establishment by law. This position will hardly be contested.

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