The Constitution of the United States, while it gave power to the body of States and guaranteed security to each yet deprived the individual States of many of the privileges and powers that they had enjoyed as colonies.
Boutwell discusses the balance of power between the states and the federal government as established by the Constitution.
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They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
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