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1. The Federalist, No. 21.
2. The Federalist, No. 91.
3. Montesq. B. 9, ch. 1, 2; 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 366, 367.-This clause of guaranty was unanimously adopted in the convention. Journ. of Convention, 113, 189.
4. The Federalist, No. 21.
5. The Federalist, No. 43.
6. 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 367. See also Rawle on Const. ch. 32; 2 Elliot's Deb. 118, 119, 120; Journ. of Convention, p. 229, 311, 312.
7. See Journ. of Convent. 113; Id. 229, 313, 347, 318, 366, 386, 387, 388.
8. The Federalist, No. 43.
9. It has been held, that the approval of the president is not necessary to any amendment proposed by congress. Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 Dall. 378.
10. The Federalist disposes of this article in the following brief, but decisive, manner: "That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing them should be provided. The mode preferred by the convention seems to be stamped with every mark of propriety. It guards equally against that extreme facility, which would render the constitution too mutable; and that extreme difficulty, which might perpetuate its discovered faults. It, moreover, equally enables the general, and the state governments to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side, or the other. The exception, in favour of the equality of suffrage in the senate, was probably meant as a palladium to the residuary sovereignty of the states, implied and secured by that principle of representation in one branch of the legislature; and was probably insisted on by the states particularly attached to that equality. The other exception must have been admitted on the same considerations. which produced the privilege defended by it." The Federalist, No. 43.
11. See 1 Black. Comm. 90, 91, 146, 147, 151, 152, 160, 161, 162, 210 to 218.
12. 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 371, 372.
