...be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. The great and radical vice in the construction of...existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION forSTATES orGOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES and as contradistinguished from...

...William N. Chambers, Parties in a New Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), pp. 24-25. 29 " 'The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation,' warned Alexander Hamilton, 'is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their...

...Hamilton. 113. Ibid., 24. 68. 1 14. Hamilton, Federalist, 86-95 (No. 15, Hamilton). Hamilton notes that "The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation" is the lack of national power vis-a-vis the states. The consequence of this lack of power is that congressional...

...73 Hamilton argued that the "radical vice" in the Confederation was "the principle of Legislation or States or Governments, in their Corporate or Collective...and as contradistinguished from the Individuals of which they consist." He concluded that Antifederalists "still in fine seem to cherish with blind devotion...

...vice" in the Articles, as Publius argues, is that the central government can only legislate for states "in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and...contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist."4" Herbert Storing argues that even the antifederalists, defenders of state power, shared...

...Institute, 1957). 21. Hamilton observes that "the great radical vice" of the Articles of Confederation is "the principle of legislation for states or governments, in their corporate or collective capacities" and praises the new Constitution for extending "the authority of the Union to the persons of citizens —...

...be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric. ns shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property7 imported into any State, to any o LEGALISATION for STATES ОГ GOVERNMENTS, ¡П their CORPORATE ОГ COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES and 3S СОПtradistinguished...

...depend upon some form of political order. An Individualistic Assumption about Political Experience "[T]he principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES" (Federalist 15, par. 6; Hamilton's emphasis) in contradistinction to "the principle of legislation...

...their acts operate on the States not on the individuals." Alexander Hamilton similarly observed that "The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES,...