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By James Madison
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
- Source
- The Federalist, volume 2 (New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788), 1788 · The Federalist, 1788, vol. 2, No. 51, p. 118
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1788 McLean edition, volume 2)
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From Federalist No. 51, first published on February 6, 1788. Federalist No. 51 appeared under the pen name Publius and is credited to Madison; the Hamilton Papers edition lists its author as "Madison or Hamilton."