"The pyramid of government-and a republican government maywell receive that beautiful and solid form-should be raised toa dignified altitude: but its foundations must, of consequence,be broad, and strong, and deep. The authority, the interests,and the affections of the people at large are the only foundation,on which a superstructure proposed to be at once durable andmagnificent, can be rationally erected."
--James Wilson

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."
~~James Madison, Federalist No. 45