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Jefferson, Thomas. "Letter to James Currie, 28 Jan. 1786." The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1954.

Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Plato; or, The Philosopher." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 31: Fears of federal usurpation considered.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 Mar. 1878. Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

Adams, John. "Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies, April 1776." John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783, edited by Gordon S. Wood. Library of America, 2011.

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 21: Other defects of present confederation.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, 14 June 1807." The Portable Thomas Jefferson, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. Penguin Classics, 1977.

Dickinson, Emily. "Because I could not stop for Death." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Compensation (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.