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It was generally agreed that the objects of the Union could not be secured by any system founded on the principle of a confederation of sovereign States. A voluntary observance of the federal law by all the members, could never be hoped for.

In this passage, Madison discusses the decision to write a new Constitution.

Madison suggests that the states

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would not cooperate with each other voluntarily.

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