Words to live by.

1) "The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to William Johnson, 1823)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 15:451.

2) "For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures
will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national
objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely
to attach themselves too much to local objects."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 47, 1 February 1788), Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 46.