The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
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The increased momentum of American life, both in its particles and its mass, unquestionably has a considerable moral and social value.
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