...a change of federal representatives" (305). Every state government, he added (Federalist 46, 320), "would espouse the common cause. A correspondence...be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. . . . The same combination in short would result from an apprehension of the federal as was produced...

...Congress to repeal the offending legislation: But ambitious encroachments of the Foederal Government . . . would not excite the opposition of a single State or of a few States only. They would be signals of a general alarm. Every Government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened....

...agreed upon bounds. As Madison observed in Federalist 46, "But ambitious encroachments by the federal government on the authority of the state governments would not excite the oppositive of a single state, or a few states only. They would be general signals of alarm. Every government...

...the federal government," the state governments would unite to defend one another. Such encroachments "would be signals of general alarm. Every government...be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted" (Madison 1999 [1772-1836], p. 270). Writing later, Madison saw the lack of political decentralization...

...would immediately unite and quickly defeat the effort. "But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments,...opposition of a single State, or of a few States only," Madison predicted. "They would be signals of general alarm" that would prompt a united response from...

...writing of that balance in The Federalist, No. XLV, wrote "But ambitious encroachments by the federal government, on the authority of the state governments,...would not excite the opposition of a single state, or a few states only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse a common...