Tuesday, January 10, 2012

1788 View of Consolidated State and Federal Governments

Via Bernhard

“If there were any seeds in this Constitution which might, one day, produce a consolidation, it would, sir, with me, be an insuperable objection, I am so perfectly convinced that so extensive a country as this can never be managed by one consolidated government….If the state governments vanish, the general government must vanish also….The state governments can put a veto, at any time, on the general government, by ceasing to continue the executive power.”

--William Richardson Davie of Halifax
(NC)

1788 View of Consolidated State and Federal Governments

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