"Nothing could be more preposterous or absurd than to sacrifice the former to the latter."

   "But 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? Nothing could be more preposterous or absurd than to sacrifice the former to the latter."--Alexander Hamilton, Friday, June 29, 1787, [The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Elliot's Debates, Volume 5, Pg. 258]