Quote of they day

"The history of Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the princes and states themselves; of the licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disregarded, or partially complied with; of attempts to enforce them, altogether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbecility, confusion, and misery."

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 19

This paper as well as the preceding papers were giving a history of the failure of confederacies thus enhancing the argument for a union under a constitutional republic