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Often appears with: popular ratification · political legitimacy and consent · forms of government · delegated authority and treaty legitimacy · consent of the people · compact theory of government
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
Hamilton says Congress’s one-body design is improper, the Confederation lacked popular ratification, and true legitimacy must rest on the people’s consent, not state legislatures’ delegated authority.
of preconceived opinions, that it is a system so radically vicious and unsound, as to admit not of amendment but by an entire change in its leading features and characters. The organization of Congress is itself utterly improper for the exercise of those powers which are necessary to be deposited in the Union. A single assembly may be a proper receptacle of those slender, or rather fettered, authorities, which have …