“It may perhaps be said that the power of preventing bad laws
includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the
one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will
have little weight with those who can properly estimate the
mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which
form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our
governments.”
–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 73