The restriction in question amounts to what lawyers call a NEGATIVE PREGNANT; that is, a negation of one thing and an affirmance of another … 

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 32

The magistrate in whom the whole executive power resides cannot of himself make a law, though he can put a negative on every [new] law, nor administer justice in person, though he has the appointment of those who do administer it. The judges can exercise no executive prerogative, though they are shoots from the executive stock, nor any legislative function.

James Madison in Federalist No. 47

… if each State had power to prescribe a DISTINCT RULE there could be no UNIFORM RULE.

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 32

… a faultless plan was not to be expected.

James Madison in Federalist No. 37

The members of the executive and judiciary departments are few in number and can be personally known to a small part only of the people.

James Madison in Federalist No. 49

What are the chief sources of expense in every Government? … The answer, plainly is, war and rebellions – the support of those institutions which are necessary to guard the body politic, against those two most mortal diseases of society.

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 34

… a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

James Madison in Federalist No. 48

… all classes of citizens should have some of their own number in the representative body, in order that their feelings and interests may be better understood and attended to. 

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 35

… the executive department had not been innocent of frequent breaches of the Constitution. … The great proportion of the instances were either immediately produced by the necessities of war or recommended by Congress or the Commander in Chief. … In most of the other instances, they conformed either to the declared or the known sentiments of the legislative department.

James Madison in Federalist No. 48

… the most productive system of finance will always be the least burthensome.

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 35