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No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
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Beveridge reflects on the impossibility of merging the distinct identities of the American states into a single entity.
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The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
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