“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 33 (1787)
Federalist No. 33 may be read in its entirety here:
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa33.htm
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