Alexander Hamilton was on the same page. “As States are a collection of individual men, which ought we to respect most, the rights of the people composing them, or of the artificial beings resulting from the composition,” he asked on June 29. “Nothing could be more preposterous or absurd than to sacrifice the former to the latter. It has been said that if the smaller States renounce their equality, they renounce at the same time their liberty. The truth is it is a contest for power, not for liberty.”14 These criticisms were being made at a time when the biggest state, Virginia, was only 13
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