The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
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Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.Henry Knox
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
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They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
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