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| b. the penalties which governments find it necessary to inflict on offenders against their laws, | No. XV. | 96 |
| A. the coercion of the magistracy, which is applicable only to men, | 96 | |
| B. the coercion of arms, which is applicable only to States, | 96 | |
| a. it would be productive of constant war, | 96 | |
| b. it would be subversive of every purpose of government, | 96 | |
| c. the argument that breaches of the laws by the States need not be expected, considered, | 96 | |
| A. such breaches would arise from the passions of the individual members of the States, | 97 | |
| B. from the impatience of control which arises from the sovereign powers of the States, | 97 | |
| g. the improbability of the execution of the Fœderal measures, in a simple league of the States, considered and averred, | 98 | |
| a. supported by the natural constitution of the local authorities, | 98 | |
| b. supported by the experience of the United States, under the old confederation, | 99 | |
| c. supported by the experience of similar confederacies, elsewhere, | XVI. | 100 |
| A. the Lycian and Achæan leagues not thus exposed, | 100 | |
| h. the employment of force in executing the measures of such a league, "in its application to us," considered, | 100 | |
| a. it would be productive of constant war between the States, | 101 | |
| b. it would lead to counter-alliances between individual States, | 101 | |
| c. it would lead to alliances between foreign nations and portions of the Union, | 101 | |
| d. it would lead to "the violent death of the confederacy," | 102 | |
| e. and to the establishment of a military despotism, | 103 | |
| i. the impracticability of sustaining the Union by military coercion, | 103 | |
| j. an efficient government can only be established on the responsibility of individual citizens, | 103 | |
| a. objections answered; that the States, as such, may still interpose their authority, and obstruct the execution of the laws, | 104 | |
| b. that individuals, also, more or less numerous, may still oppose the government, | 105 | |
| c. that the reserved rights of the States would be invaded by the Fœderal government, | XVII. | 107 |
| A. the absence of any competent inducement, | 107 | |
| B. the People of the several States, through the House of Representatives, could frustrate such an attempt, | 108 |
