Compact Theory

Compact theory refers to two theories related to the development of federal constitutions.

Read more about Compact Theory:  Compact Theory in The United States, Compact Theory in Canada

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    Take pains ... to write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)