Our government under the proposed [Constitution], will be guarded by a repetition of the strongest cautions against excesses. In the senate the sovereignties of the several states will be equally represented; in the house of representatives, the people of the whole union will be equally represented; and, in the president, and the federal independent judges . . . the sovereignties of the several states and the people of the whole union, may be considered as . . . represented. —John Dickinson, The Letters of Fabius, in 1788, on the Federal Constitution The reference in the quote to the Senate and the House describes the