Whitelaw Reid: “It is not clear that the founders of the Government expected even all…”

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It is not clear that the founders of the Government expected even all the territory we possessed at the outset to be made into States.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid questions whether the founders intended for all acquired territories to eventually become states.

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