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What have the state governments to do with it?" Had the Federal Convention exceeded its powers?
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “What have the state governments to do with it?" Had the Federal Convention exceeded its powers?”
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Beveridge questions the legitimacy of the Federal Convention's actions regarding state powers, highlighting concerns about overreach.
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Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.
The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
The genius of the Constitution, and the opinions of the people of the United States, cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government.
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