To make our states one as to all foreign concerns, preserve them several
as to all merely domestic, to give to the federal head some peaceable
mode of enforcing their just authority, to organize that head into
Legislative, Executive and Judiciary departments are great desiderata in
our federal constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
Paris
August 14, 1787
LETTER CCLXXVII.—TO THOMAS PAINE, March 18, 1801
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