Albert Beveridge: “This is the tree where despotism lies concealed....”

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…

Our children see this and learn to imitate it....

Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.