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Albert Beveridge: “It was the States which always were thwarting every plan for the general welfare; the States which were forever…”

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It was the States which always were thwarting every plan for the general welfare; the States which were forever impairing the National obligations; the States which bound hand and foot the straw man of the central power, clothed it in rags and made it a mere scarecrow of government.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge critiques the states for undermining national unity and effectiveness in governance.

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