Which quote is consistent with the principle of federalism? "without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression."—john adams "let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation…the state governments with…what concerns the state…"—thomas jefferson "it will not be denied that power … ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it."—james madison "to contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."—john jay

James Madison, The Federalist Papers

   The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

Madison, although he was for a more powerful federal government, made sure to emphasize that it would not come to the tyranny that the country had witnessed as a British colony. Separating the sources of power that he lists above was a keystone of the government then, and it still is now.

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