Note 3
THE FEDERALIST. No. LXXVIII.
Vide Protest of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania, Martin’s Speech, etc.
…in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community. Though I trust the friends of the proposed Constitution will never concur with its enemies[3] in questioning that fundamental principle of republican government, which admits the right of the people to alter or abolish the established Constitution, whenever they find it inconsistent with their happiness, yet it is not to be inferred from this princ…
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