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Note 1
THE FEDERALIST. No. VII.

Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison

Divide and command.

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…ns of the parts into which she was divided, would be likely to become a prey to the artifices and machinations of powers equally the enemies of them all. Divide et impera[1] must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.[2]

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Note 1THE FEDERALIST. No. VII.

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THE FEDERALIST. No. VII.