As he had during the debates on the Articles of Confederation, Wilson reserved his greatest disdain for the claim that individual states should retain significant power under the new system. “The general government is not an assemblage of states, but of individuals, for certain political purposes,” Wilson said on June 25 during one of many battles over the shape of the national legislature. To him, it was obvious that population should be the measure of representation. After all, he said, the legislature was the voice of the people, and “the individuals, therefore, not the states, ought to be
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