If anybody is disposed to set up the denationalizing pretensions of States under the National Constitution, let him bear in mind this explicit declaration, that, throughout all the deliberations of the Convention, the one object kept steadily in view was the consolidation of our Union.
Sumner warns against undermining the national unity established by the Constitution, emphasizing its central purpose during the Convention.
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